Cuba---AAHHHH!

So this is wrong wrong wrong! granted i will not hold it against the government because of the lack of knowledge and understanding of the virus. But it would never be okay for this to happen present day.  

Aside from this, however, Cuba has done an excellent job of HIV screening and prevention.  Perhaps stemming from something they learned in the 80's.  Here is what i found about the quarantine santorium.  

"The HIV quarantine facilitated the education of patients and their families about HIV, allowed for directly observed patient treatments and safeguarded the general population of Cuba. Meticulous identification of every HIV positive individual in Cuba allowed the tracking back to the “source” of the patient’s HIV infection, whether from overseas or in Cuba. Cuba has an extensive confidential database of HIV positive individuals along with all their intimate contacts who have contracted HIV or remained HIV negative."

Now while I completely agree with Ara and his explanations of how this is wrong, I also think perhaps it did some good in education.  While this was going on, the HIV/AIDS stigma in the general population was also attacked. 

"Cuba stopped quarantining in 1993 and allows people with HIV to stay at home after a course to teach them how to look after themselves and not spread the virus.Universal free access to locally made generic antiretroviral drugs has kept AIDS cases and deaths very low, said the UNAIDS program. Almost 20 years later, Cuba has one of the lowest rates of HIV infection in the world, a prevalence of less than 0.1 percent of its sexually active population."

So obviously something went right, and Cuba has HIV/AIDS under control. Something that is hard to say about various Latin American countries.