CDC to End All Its Monkey Experiments—a Historic Win for Animals, Public Health, and Science

In a seismic win for animals and science, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has announced that it will phase out cruel experiments on monkeys in its laboratory—a long-overdue move that PETA has fought for relentlessly and follows our discussion with the Department of Health and Human Services. PETA thanks the administration for taking this decisive, visionary step and acknowledging what mountains of evidence have made clear: Experiments on monkeys aren’t delivering for humans, nowhere more obvious than the four-decade failure to produce a marketable HIV vaccine. Today, we’re celebrating a historic turning point—one that protects public health, respects endangered species, and helps propel research into a modern, animal-free future.