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February 26, 2003
U.S. IMMUNIZATION NEWS
"Advocates Say AIDS Vaccine Researchers Need to Break Through Blacks' Mistrust of Medical Community" Associated Press (www.ap.org) (02/26/03); Kong, Deborah
AIDS vaccine researchers have had difficulty getting African Americans to participate in clinical studies. The reticence is largely the result of the 40-year Tuskegee Syphilis Study, a government test in which African Americans were not told they had syphilis and were denied treatment so researchers could study its effects. Black Educational AIDS Project executive director J. Lawrence Miller says that education is the only tool that can overcome the distrust. The founder of the Balm in Gilead, Pernessa Seele, feels it would be helpful for more African-American scientists to be involved in vaccine research, even as her organization works with churches to block the spread of HIV.
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