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Tuskegee Airmen Syphilis Act Student’s Name Institution of Affiliation Tuskegee Airmen Syphilis Act Introduction The prevailing standards of healthcare in the United States of America are the product of several reforms and reviewing of earlier policies. Unlike in the contemporary world, the early 1900s experienced the emergence of new strains of venereal disease that baffled the scientists and other experts in the medical profession. The outbreak was quickly affecting the populace especially the Black community that was suffering from social deprivation at the time. It, therefore, required that research and experiments were carried out to study the diseases' properties such as contact, transmission, and progression in the human body. Among other diseases, syphilis was one of the illnesses prevalent in the African American population, and it was already leading to increased mortality rates in the society. Moreover, there was no cure had been discovered and this prompted the government to initiate measures aimed at understanding how syphilis affected people. Following this, the US Public Health service under the mandate and support of the central government decided to study the progression of the ailment among the African American in Macon County, Alabama. The program was a corroborated USPHS, local healthcare officials, and the Tuskegee Institute. It was infamously known as the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male and it commenced in 1932 (Shavers, & Burmeister, 2000). The region was ideal for the experiment because it was a majority Black community and medical care was lacking at the time. The African Americans were destitute and
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