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Today we conclude our series on the Tuskegee Siphilist Study. We'll be talking with Prisca Neely. She's a reporter for Southern California Public Radio. As we noted in our last episode, wide health disparities still exist today between Black and White Americans. Perhaps the most shocking of these disparities is the infant mortality.

As Prisca has reported, Black babies in the United States are twice as likely as White babies to die before their first birthday. A myriad of factors such as poverty, access to health care and education contribute to this problem.

But more alarming is that this issue has persisted for decades with no sign of change. Prisca has put considerable time into researching this issue and she'll discuss her reporting, her personal connection to it.

And why solving the problem will require tackling structural and institutional racism.

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Now, the Tuskegee Cifulla study and modern infant mortality rates are completely separate issues.

The study was a large conspiracy that purposefully harmed a specific set of African American men from the 1930s on.

The issues you reported on feel much more widespread and much more modern, and at the same time, not modern at all.

I'm wondering if you see any parallels here in terms of the relationship between doctors, government and healthcare system and African Americans.

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