The summary of the Tuskegee Study

The summary of the Tuskegee Study:

In 1930, the United States Health Service launched a study of the disease, syphilis, and the effects of treatment in 6 Southern counties with large black populations. Two years later at the height of the Depression, funding ran out.
Back in Washington, the Health Service decided if it couldn’t afford to treat syphilis, maybe in a scaled back version of the experiment, they at least could study its effects. Abandoning those who participated in the larger treatment program, the Health service chose to focus on Macon County, a poor, rural county in Alabama, as the site for the scaled down experiment.
In the fall of 1932, handbills were posted and circulated at several church gatherings in the county. The ads promised special treatment for men with bad blood, which, to local folks, could mean anything from venereal disease to anemia to indigestion. Eager to take advantage of any kind of medical care that was free the men signed up in droves. After the blood tests of the volunteers, 399 men with syphilis and a control group of 201 men without the disease were chosen. 399 men signed up for free medical care. They were not told that they had syphilis or that they were a part of a medical experiment. In exchange for taking part in the study the men received free medical exams, free meals and burial insurance. Although originally projected to last 6 months, the study actually went on for 40 years.
During WWII they kept the still oblivious participants out of the draft, since military service would require a blood test and treatment if syphilis was found. In 1947 when penicillin was found effective in curing syphilis, the researchers did not offer it to the men in the study. They were never offered the choice of quitting the study, even when this new, highly effective treatment became widely used.
By the time the study was exposed in 1972, 28 men had died of syphilis, 100 others were dead of related complications, at least 40 wives had been infected and 19 children had contracted the disease at birth.
65 years later the President apologized. On May 16, 1997, President Clinton addressed survivors with these words,
The United States Government did something that was wrong, deeply, profoundly, morally wrong.The people who ran the study at Tuskegee diminished the stature of man by abandoning the most basic ethical precepts.

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The link for the Declaration of Helsinki:

http://www.wma.net/en/30publications/10policies/b3/index.html