Information on the 1946-1948 United States Public Health Service STD Inoculation Study

• December 14, 2011--Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues releases its contemporary assessment of the rules and regulations that protect participants in human subjects research
  • Moral Science: Protecting Participants in Human Subjects research (PDF – 5.7 MB)
• September 13, 2011 -- HHS Statement on Bioethics Commission's historical findings (English and Español)
• September 13, 2011 – Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues releases findings from its historical investigation into the U.S. Public Health Service STD Research in Guatemala from 1946-1948
  • “Ethically Impossible” STD Research in Guatemala from 1946 to 1948 (PDF – 4 MB)
• Memorandum from the President to the Chair of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues Regarding the Review of Human Subjects Protection
• March 28, 2011 -- HHS Statement on National Archives Release of Materials of U.S. Public Health Service STD Inoculation Study of 1946-48 (English and Español)
• Statement by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius on the U.S. Public Health Service STD Inoculation Study of 1946-1948 (in English and en Español)
• Fact Sheet on the 1946-1948 U.S. Public Health Service Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD) Inoculation Study
  • English (PDF - 10KB)
  • En Español (PDF - 10.7KB)
• Full Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Report on the 1946-1948 U.S. Public Health Service Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) Inoculation Study, Based on a Review of Archived Papers of John Cutler, MD, at the University of Pittsburgh
  • English (PDF - 105KB)
• Findings from a CDC Report on the 1946-1948 U.S. Public Health Service Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) Inoculation Study, Based on a Review of Archived Papers of John Cutler, MD, at the University of Pittsburgh
  • English (PDF - 16KB)
• Information on Protection of Human Subjects in Research Funded or Regulated by the U.S. Government: How today’s rules prohibit ethical abuses in human subjects research
  • English (PDF - 14.8KB)
• Read-out of the President's Call with Guatemalan President Colom (White House)
• Intentional Infection of Vulnerable Populations in 1946-1948: Another Tragic History Lesson, an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) by Thomas R. Frieden, MD, MPH; Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD

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