Over 40 years, experimenters watched as hundreds of Black Americans went blind, suffered from organ failure, and died of a ...

The U.S. is giving $1.6 million to researchers to study how the hepatitis B vaccine affects newborns in Guinea-Bissau. Local ...

"This administration did not see people in Africa as valuable." The post Trump Administration Cancels Grotesquely Unethical ...

The Trump administration’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is funding a heavily flawed vaccine trial in west Africa that is being described as “another Tuskegee.” The health newsletter ...

The Trump administration is trying to discredit Africa’s top health agency over an hepatitis B study with infants.

The Trump administration is facing condemnation over a medical study in West Africa that is being condemned as unethical and ...

As the U.S. continues the push to get more Americans vaccinated against COVID-19, there is a renewed effort to address vaccine hesitancy, especially among African Americans. A new short film takes a ...

Bill Jenkins, a government epidemiologist who tried to expose the unethical Tuskegee syphilis study in the 1960s and devoted the rest of his career to fighting racism in health care, died Feb. 17 in ...

Walter Williams, a 49-year-old veteran, tested positive for the AIDS virus eight years ago, but he has rejected his doctor's urging that he try the new drugs that have shown such promise in reversing ...

EDITOR'S NOTE — On July 25, 1972, Jean Heller, a reporter on The Associated Press investigative team, then called the Special Assignment Team, broke news that rocked the nation. Based on documents ...