In 1996,  President William J. Clinton issued an official apology for the Tuskegee Syphilis study. The government-sponsored study took place at the Tuskegee Institute in Macon County, Alabama. The study examined the effects of syphilis and was carried out over four decades on African-American men from whom necessary treatment was withheld and who were given inadequate information about the experiment. Over 600 African-American men and their families were affected.

Resources

• Remarks of President Clinton at the White House in Apology of the Study Done in Tuskegee
• Tuskegee, CDC The history of the Tuskegee Study is available at the Department of Human Health and Services: Center for Disease Control and Prevention website.