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To the Editor: In Annas's excellent discussion (Aug. 19 issue)¹ of the detention at Guantanamo Bay of Haitians seropositive for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the comparison of the prison camp with Cuba's sanitarium system is misleading in several respects. We visited the Santiago de las Vegas sanitarium outside Havana and toured the Tropical Medicine Institute in May 1993. We were invited to the homes of several sanitarium residents and spoke with many health officials and physicians.

More than 12 million enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs) were done in Cuba between April 1986 and July 1992. There were 804 seropositive tests, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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