July 19, 2004

Cuba to Help Caribbean Fight AIDS

July 19, 2004/ Tron Nick

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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