The
Indian Heath Service (IHS) was originally a subpart of the
Bureau of Indian Affairs (
BIA) that was in charge of providing
medical attention to
Indian Reservations. It is now an agency within the
US Dept. of Health and Human Services.
In 1975 it was discovered that the IHS was conducting a
secret program of involuntary
sterilization that had affected about 40 percent of all Indian
women. The program was supposedly shut down and the control of the IHS moved from the BIA to the
Public Heath Service.
Nobody was punished.
In 1990 it was found out that the IHS was
inoculating,
Inuit children in
Alaska with
Hepatitis-B vaccine. This particular vaccine was banned by the
World Health Organization because it demonstrated a correlation with
HIV.