French Guiana has the gloomy record of being proportionally the most infected department by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. It is also a destination land for Caribbean and Latino-American population. If on one side the exception laws adopted to control migration have little effects on population movements, on the other side they generate social problems, including the complicated access of the non regularized population to the health delivery system. In that respect, the relatively low rate (around 50%) of persons infected by AIDS that actually receive regular care cannot only be due to their cultural behaviour as is often argued, but more importantly to the political and legal conditions which determine their immigration status.

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