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In 1974, after Tuskegee
and the debacle of the syphilis natural history study conducted by
the US Public Health Service on the participants of ‘Tuskegee study
of untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male’ which withheld
appropriate treatment even after antibiotics became available,
the US enacted the
National Research Act which established a National Commission for
the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral
Research.
In 1979, this commission
presented the Belmont Report (http://ohsr.od.nih.gov/guidelines/belmont.html
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The US President, Bill
Clinton apologised on behalf of the government
of
the United States,
to the surviving black participants and their surviving relatives on
May 16 1997,
65 years after the study
was started.
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