VICE meets a few surviving members of Los Frikis, a Cuban punk movement, who purposely infected themselves with HIV in the early 90s. The punks used this method as a way to get sent to government-sanctioned sanatoriums where they were given better resources than they had on the streets.
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Meet the Cuban Punks Who Infected Themselves with HIV in Protest ─ VICE
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