Tuskegee Syphilis Study Fact Sheet

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Term Paper Title	Tuskegee Syphilis Study Fact Sheet
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Tuskegee Syphilis Study Fact Sheet

Intro: The Tuskegee Syphilis Study was a forty year long government study from 1932 to
1972 in which approximately four hundred Black men from Macon County, Alabama, were
deliberately denied effective treatment for syphilis in order to document the natural history of
the disease.
History:  In the early 1900’s the poverty stricken blacks in the Southern United States
were refereed to as a “syphilis soaked race.”  Macon County, Alabama was an economically
depressed county.  In 1930 Macon County’s population was just over 27,000 people.
Eighty-two percent of this population were black.  These demographics stayed similar up
into the 1970’s
Subjects:  The start of the study began in 1932 with 412 Black men with syphilis and 204
controls.
Purpose:  The Tuskegee Study was started in 1932 with approximately 400 indigent
southern Black men.  These men were recruited by health researchers to chart the progress of
this disease.  The purpose was to withhold treatment for those individuals, and compare their
health with that of Black men without syphilis.  Because the men were recruited by
government health workers, they believed they were receiving free medical treatment.
Sampling Techniques:  News reporters in the 1970’s began to investigate the
Tuskegee Study and wondered why Black men went along with the study.  The subjects
came from a poor, poverty stricken environment and with the study came free medical
exams, free rides to the clinic, hot meals on exam days, and a burial stipend paid to their
survivors.
Data Collection Methods:  Salavarson is a drug that was available and moderately
successful in treating syphilis, but was denied to these Black males.  Penicillin was also
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