The U.S. must do more than apologize to Guatemala over STD study - The Washington Post: IN THE FALL of 2010, the Obama administration acknowledged a shocking truth: From 1946 through 1948, officials working in Guatemala for the U.S. Public Health Service conducted tests on some 5,100 unwitting individuals and deliberately infected at least 1,300 with sexually transmitted diseases. None of the victims — who included prisoners, soldiers, the mentally ill and commercial sex workers — consented to this barbaric treatment. At least 83 people died, and many suffered permanent damage.
President Obama expressed regrets to the Guatemalan president. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius called the experiments outrageous and, in a joint statement, apologized “to all the individuals who were affected by such abhorrent research practices.” The administration gave a presidential commission the task of compiling information about the origins, nature and scope of the experiments.
