Abstract
AFTER SPENDING up to 20 months behind barbed wire in a squalid detention camp, more than 300 Haitian refugees are now free in United States, thanks in large part to a group of physicians who spoke out against US government's incarceration of men, women, and children for the crime of being infected with human immunodeficiency virus [HIV]. At various times this year, more than a dozen physicians traveled to Camp Bulkley, Haitian refugee detention camp at US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to assess refugees' plight, counsel them, and advocate improved conditions in camp. The human rights project was headed by Douglas Shenson, MD, MPH, a board member of Doctors of World, New York, NY-based international medical relief organization affiliated with Medecins du Monde ( JAMA . 1993;269:2481-2484). Among physicians sent by group to Guantanamo Bay to bear witness and
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