Thinking of African Americans Change
A recent survey conducted in 2006 by McCallum et al, shows low research participation among African Americans; 27% of African Americans reported less interest in participating in medical researches compared with only 11% of Whites. Furthermore, 81% of African American males had knowledge of the experiment, compared to only 28% of Whites. Researchers also found that 46% of African Americans would not want to participate in future medical studies compared to 34% of Whites. Lastly, researchers conducting the survey found that 87.1% of African Americans who were aware of the study believed it could happen again. This tells us that African Americans are less likely to participate in future medical researchers (Riggs).
Another survey conducted shows that African Americans think that certain diseases, such as AIDS, were mean t to kill because more and more people started to die from it since they got no treatment. In 1990, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference conducted a survey and thirty five percent of the 105 members believed that AIDS was related to a form of genocide. Another survey conducted shows that ten percent of African Americans believed AIDS were created in a laboratory to kill the African race. All in all, after the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment ended, African Americans began to think that scientists were creating diseases to infect the African race. They thought that the men who participated in the study were injected with syphilis, when in reality, they were exposed to it. This paranoia among the African Americans prevented some of them from taking part in medical studies because they believe that they would be left to die (Gamble).
Another survey conducted shows that African Americans think that certain diseases, such as AIDS, were mean t to kill because more and more people started to die from it since they got no treatment. In 1990, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference conducted a survey and thirty five percent of the 105 members believed that AIDS was related to a form of genocide. Another survey conducted shows that ten percent of African Americans believed AIDS were created in a laboratory to kill the African race. All in all, after the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment ended, African Americans began to think that scientists were creating diseases to infect the African race. They thought that the men who participated in the study were injected with syphilis, when in reality, they were exposed to it. This paranoia among the African Americans prevented some of them from taking part in medical studies because they believe that they would be left to die (Gamble).