How are HIV and AIDS patients treated in Cuba?
A.Reports would have you believe that HIV/Aids patients in Cuba are quarantined in asylums against their will. This is not true. Patients go to sanatorias (the English translation of sanatorium for sanatoria is inaccurate here) first and foremost to receive information and education about how to deal with their ailment and then treatment. It is true that there is some obligation on the part of the patient to do this, and is done to reduce the spreading of the disease. At the same time, the sanatoria offers the patient the best environment for therapy, nutrition, and medication. Patients are allowed to go out week-ends and to leave permanently after 3 months. At the Havana Tropical Medicine Institute patients get the best treatment available from psychologists, psychiatrists, epidemiologists, internal medicine specialists, social workers, and nurses. The disease, unfortunately, is spreading like wild-fire in all Third World countries, in the heterosexual community mostly, with Cuba bein
