VICE meets a few surviving members of Los Frikis, a Cuban punk movement, who purposely infected themselves with HIV in the early 90s.

The punks used this method as a way to get sent to government-sanctioned sanatoriums where they were given better resources than they had on the streets.

Yoandra Cardoso, a longtime Friki, said, “When the sanatorium first opened, it was 100 percent Frikis…we were all here together.”

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