""Cuba's success in fighting the aids epidemic was based on rigorous testing, contact tracing and the use of sanatoria in the 80s and nineties.""

The site/source I linked to says that this is not so.

Regardless of the actual reasons, just because measures were successful in Cuba- where the level of government control on society and individuals is comprehensive, does not mean they would be effective or deemed acceptable by societies elsewhere.

However, it is impressive that the Cuban government recognized the importance of reducing the negative stigma that gays faced in that society and actually did something to try and turn it around.

I have been in Cuba very many times and have been impressed that the government puts a big priority on excellent health care for its citizens. I have also noticed that prostitution and intervenous drug use are comparatively low, two major transmission routes in most other nations.