http://www.svd.se/nyheter/utrikes/usa-u ... 437977.svdUSA bad på fredagen om ursäkt för experiment som genomfördes i Guatemala på 1940-talet. I studien smittades flera hundra människor, bland andra psykiskt sjuka, med syfilis och gonorré.
Studien leddes av den amerikanske forskaren John Cutler. Patienterna tros ha blivit vilseförda om syftet - penicillinutveckling - och något resultat publicerades inte.
Ursäkten framfördes av utrikesminister Hillary Clinton och sjukvårdsminister Kathleen Sebelius.
http://www.svd.se/nyheter/utrikes/usa-k ... 464407.svdGuatemala har överlämnat en formell begäran för att få full insyn i hur amerikanska forskare avsiktligt infekterade hundratals människor med sexuellt överförbara sjukdomar på 1940-talet.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11457552US testing that infected hundreds of Guatemalans with gonorrhoea and syphilis more than 60 years ago was a "crime against humanity", Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom has said.
President Barack Obama has apologised for the medical tests, in which mentally ill patients and prisoners were infected without their consent.
Mr Obama told Mr Colom the 1940s-era experiments ran contrary to American values, Guatemala said.
The US has promised an investigation.
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The study by Prof Reverby shows that US government medical researchers infected almost 700 people in Guatemala with two sexually transmitted diseases.
The patients - prisoners and people suffering mental health problems - were unaware they were being experimented upon.
The doctors used prostitutes with syphilis to infect them, or inoculation, as they tried to determine whether penicillin could prevent syphilis, not just cure it.
The patients were then treated for the disease, but it is unclear whether everyone was cured.
Prof Reverby has previously done research on the Tuskegee experiment, where the US authorities measured the progress of syphilis in African-American sharecroppers without telling them they had the disease or adequately treating it.
The experiment ran from 1932 to 1972, with President Bill Clinton eventually apologising for it.
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