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Oral history interview with Dr. Bryan Page, conducted by Dan Royles for the Miami AIDS Memorials Project. Page, a medical anthropologist at the University of Miami, discusses his path from graduate fieldwork on marijuana use in Costa Rica to AIDS research in Miami beginning in the late 1970s. He describes his ethnographic studies of Cuban, Haitian, and African American drug-using communities, including direct observation of injection practices in "get-off houses" that documented previously undescribed risk behaviors such as needle pooling and frontloading. Page discusses his long-running cohort studies of HIV and HTLV co-infection among intravenous drug users, collaborations with researchers including Shenghan Lai and Merrill Singer, and his founding role with the Center for Haitian Studies, where he helped develop HIV prevention and informed-consent approaches responsive to Haitian cultural beliefs about illness. He reflects on the cultural guides who gave him access to drug-using communities, the toll of the epidemic on colleagues and informants, his friendship with Paul Farmer, and his long-term research on a Costa Rican family affected by spinal muscular atrophy. The interview closes with his reflections on mentorship and legacy after decades of work at the intersection of drug use, stigma, and the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Miami.

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