CONFIRMED
The Tuskegee Syphilis Study
In 1932, the U.S. Public Health Service began a study of 399 Black men in Macon County, Alabama, who had syphilis. They were told they were being treated. They were not. For forty years — including the twenty-five years after penicillin became standard care — the Public Health Service watched the disease take its course. A whistleblower's documents reached the Associated Press on July 25, 1972, and the study ended a few months later. President Clinton apologized on behalf of the United States government in 1997.
Health & Medicine
1932-1972
