When surveyed/interviewed several years after the study’s termination, many African-Americans expressed doubt in the government’s intentions in their health care, quite a few directly mentioning the Tuskegee study as an example of why they don’t trust the government (Bates, Harris). In 1990, one survey conducted even went so far as to show that 10% of African-Americans surveyed believed that AIDS were an attempt by the US government to extinguish them, and a further 20% of that population couldn’t deny that origin as a possibility, many referring to the Tuskegee study as an example (Brunner). Although public opinion has improved slightly in more recent times, it will take a good while longer before trust is fully restored to the African-American community (Bates,
When surveyed/interviewed several years after the study’s termination, many African-Americans expressed doubt in the government’s intentions in their health care, quite a few directly mentioning the Tuskegee study as an example of why they don’t trust the government (Bates, Harris). In 1990, one survey conducted even went so far as to show that 10% of African-Americans surveyed believed that AIDS were an attempt by the US government to extinguish them, and a further 20% of that population couldn’t deny that origin as a possibility, many referring to the Tuskegee study as an example (Brunner). Although public opinion has improved slightly in more recent times, it will take a good while longer before trust is fully restored to the African-American community (Bates,