The Tuskegee study continues to have an impact on how people view research.  My experience has been that when you're talking about HIV/AIDS research, sooner or later the topic of Tuskegee will come up.  Will you be prepared to talk about Tuskegee when the topic comes up in your community?  This one-page article which is reprinted from the OMH newsletter 'Closing the Gap' is a good overview of what happened at Tuskegee and how it impacts clinical trials.

YOUR CABS MISSION STATEMENT AND BYLAWS

Has your local Community Advisory Board recently worked on a mission statement or bylaws?  If so, please send them to me!  I'm going to be posting several sample mission statments and bylaws of local CABS on the website and would love to include yours.

As always, please let me know what's happening at your local CAB and how I can help.

Best,

David Mariner