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Cuba begins distributing PrEP through pilot program

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The Cuban government last month began to distribute PrEP through a pilot program in the city of Cárdenas. The program comes less than 30 years after the Cuban government forcibly quarantined people with HIV/AIDS in state-run sanitaria. (Washington Blade photo by Michael K. Lavers)

The Cuban government has begun to distribute PrEP through a pilot program that began last month.

Granma, the official newspaper of the Cuban Communist Party, last week reported 28 people in Cárdenas, a city in Matanzas province that is roughly 90 miles east of Havana, have received PrEP since the program began on March 6. Read More

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