The purpose of the program is to:
1) provide support for the annual commemoration of the Presidential Apology for the U. S. Public Health Service Syphilis Study at Tuskegee Alabama and 2) promote public health ethics and ethics in health care delivery.
The project will also support public
credit:
health ethics training of students attending HBCUs by providing learning opportunities in partnership with CDC.
This program addresses the "Healthy People 2020" focus area(s) * STD-1 Reduce the proportion of adolescents and young adults with Chlamydia trachomatis infections; * STD-2 Reduce Chlamydia rates among females aged 15-44 years; * STD-6 Reduce gonorrhea rate; * STD-7 Reduce sustained transmission of primary and secondary syphilis; and * STD-8 Reduce congenital syphilis.