They devised their own treatment system in which the patient was taken into hospital areas, and treated over time with a structured regime, for as long as it would take, was given his/her salary he/she was making, was allowed to bring his/her partner to stay there, also, also totally supported, and they whipped it, didn't they?
The Cuban medical researches were directed to start producing enough of the drugs to share with other poor countries around the world which couldn't pay the astounding prices international drug producers were charging, as well, a proposition which never seemed to appeal, apparently, to ordinary commercial producers.
I was watching internet traffic on the subject at the time and saw it jammed with non-stop right-wing gibberish trying to claim Cuba was abusing people stricken with the illness, even sending them to prison, etc. They didn't even slow down when Cuba, a few years later, because the first Latin American country to legitimize gay marriages. Go figure, right?
Thank you, so much, Marcus IM! 
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