The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently agreed to fund a 1. 6m (1. 2m) study on the hepatitis B vaccine that has glaring similarities to unethical biomedical research of the past. 1 The study is on hold while the African CDC assesses its ethics and necessity, but even the fact that this potentially harmful study was proposed reveals the extent of backsliding in science, ethics, and research funding. We are regressing to the days when research on Black subjects was detrimental to their health rather than beneficial. The healthcare community must act to defend decades of progress and protect the health of Black people globally.
Jeannette M Wade (Thu,) studied this question.