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Inside the little known Government founded Experiment that let Hundreds of Black men Die of Syphilis
Inside the little known Government founded Experiment that let Hundreds of Black men Die of Syphilis For 40 years, the U.S. government doctors behind the Tuskegee experiment tricked African American men with syphilis into thinking they were getting free treatment — but gave them no treatment at all. Read more about this dark chapter in American history by clicking the link in our profile. The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male (informally referred to as the Tuskegee Experiment or Tuskegee Syphilis Study) was a study conducted between 1932 and 1972 by the United States Public Health Service (PHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on a group of nearly 400 African American men with syphilis. The purpose of the study was to observe the effects of the disease when untreated, though by the end of the study medical advancements meant it was entirely treatable. The men were not informed of the nature of the experiment, and more than 100 died as