Acquired Immunodeficiency in Haitians

Emmanuel Arnoux; Madeleine Boncy; Robert Elie; A. Claude Laroche; Jean Michel Guérin; Bernard Liautaud; A. Claude Laroche; Jean Robert Mathurin; Rodolphe Malebranche; Jean William Pape; Gérard Pierre; Moliére Pamphile; Vergninaud Péan; Marie Myrtha st-Amand; Franck Thomas; Jeffrey Vieira; Elliot Frank; Sheldon Landesman

doi:10.1056/NEJM198306093082314

Acquired Immunodeficiency in Haitians

Emmanuel Arnoux
, Madeleine Boncy
, Robert Elie
, A. Claude Laroche
, Jean Michel Guérin
, Bernard Liautaud
, A. Claude Laroche
, Jean Robert Mathurin
, Rodolphe Malebranche
, Jean William Pape
, Gérard Pierre
, Moliére Pamphile
, Vergninaud Péan
, Marie Myrtha st-Amand
, Franck Thomas
, Jeffrey Vieira
, Elliot Frank
, Sheldon Landesman

School of Medicine

Groupe Haïtien d'étude du Sarcome de Kaposi et des Infections Opportunistes
Brooklyn Hospital Center

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To the Editor: In the Discussion section of the article by Vieira et al. (Jan. 20 issue) concerning the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in 10 Haitian patients living in the United States, the authors postulated, “If a viral agent were imported into the United States from Haiti by vacationing homosexuals, it might quickly spread within the homosexual community…. Homosexual drug addicts, in turn, might introduce the agent via the parenteral route into the heterosexual addict population,”¹ thus suggesting Haiti as the only possible source of the disease. Being interested in this problem, we have documented several cases of AIDS in.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1419-1420
Number of pages	2
Journal	New England Journal of Medicine
Volume	308
Issue number	23
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJM198306093082314
State	Published - 9 Jun 1983

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Arnoux, E., Boncy, M., Elie, R., Laroche, A. C., Guérin, J. M., Liautaud, B., Laroche, A. C., Mathurin, J. R., Malebranche, R., Pape, J. W., Pierre, G., Pamphile, M., Péan, V., st-Amand, M. M., Thomas, F., Vieira, J., Frank, E., & Landesman, S. (1983). Acquired Immunodeficiency in Haitians. New England Journal of Medicine, 308(23), 1419-1420. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJM198306093082314

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Acquired Immunodeficiency in Haitians

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