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Except for the people living with the disease, no others have so immersed themselves in Cuba’s world of HIV/AIDS as Dr Jorge Pérez. It is a world of Cuban returnees from Angola’s war against apartheid South Africa, gay and bisexual men, housewives, transactional sex workers, rebellious teenagers, and infected surgeons and scientists—a cultural kaleidoscope refl ecting all the faces of AIDS. To more than one international author, he is simply “Cuba’s AIDS doctor.” Speaking to his patients at the "Pedro Kourí" Tropical Medicine Institute in Havana, it is easy to see why, but also to appreciate the courage, compassion, and persistent search for new knowledge that characterize the Institute’s staff as a whole. Dr Pérez’s story—now told in two books based on his diaries—is not his alone.