Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome in Peru

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To the editor: The rapidity of the international spread of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) depends on the extent of travel of, and contact between, at-risk groups. In 1980, coincident with the first case of AIDS in San Francisco, 11 % of homosexual men there had antibody to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV, formerly HTLV-III/LAV) (1). In Peru, nine cases of AIDS have been diagnosed through 1985 (2), all but one in homosexual men with a history of travel to, or residence in, an endemic city (3, 4) (one case was in a hemophiliac who received a blood transfusion in