UN coordinator lauds Cuba's anti-AIDS programme
Sunday, November 23, 2003
HAVANA, Cuba: Cuba has the lowest HIV infection rate in Latin America and the Caribbean, a UN coordinator in Cuba remarked at a conference on HIV/AIDS prevention in Havana last week.
Cuba has registered only 2,565 cases of HIV/AIDS, he said, attributing this to Cuba's efforts to carry out its anti-AIDS programme.
Since 1983, Cuba has recommended its people take measures to prevent the spread of the disease that has infected 42 million people worldwide. The country has banned the import of blood from countries with a high HIV infection rate
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