Cuba has contained the spread of the virus to 0.07 percent of its people
Cuba
offered on Thursday to build training centers for nurses to
handle AIDS patients in Caribbean nations and provide
antiretroviral drugs to fight the pandemic. Cuban Foreign
Minister Felipe Perez Roque made the offer at a one-day meeting
with counterparts from the Caribbean Community (Caricom). "From
the social standpoint, the major challenge ahead of us is the
fight against HIV/AIDS," Perez Roque said. In contrast to other
Caribbean countries, Cuba has contained the spread of the virus
to 0.07 percent of its people through a controversial program
that obliged patients to remain in institutions to obtain
treatment. [more]
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