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Hagen, Kimberly Sessions – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2005
For African Americans, medical research often connotes exploitation and cruelty, making recruiting African Americans to participate in HIV vaccine trials particularly daunting. But infusing adult education principles into such efforts is both increasing African American participation and helping heal the legacy of the Tuskegee experiment.
Descriptors: Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Recruitment, Medical Research, African Americans