In ______, the Alabama state health officer solicited assurance from the United States Public Health Service (USPHS) that participants would eventually receive treatment.

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The Tuskegee Syphilis study was the notorious experiment conducted between 1932 and 1972 in which the Alabama Public Health Service studied the progression of syphilis in a group of poor Black men without informing them or offering them treatment, despite the availability of penicillin as a cure. The state health officer solicited assurance from the USPHS that participants would eventually receive treatment, but this promise was not kept, and many men suffered and died as a result. The other options (A, B, and D) are not valid options as they do not refer to the Tuskegee Syphilis study.

In ______, the Alabama State Health Officer Solicited Assurance from the United