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Thursday, December 01, 2005

World Aids Day and REVOLUCION!!

Today is World AIDS day.
Cuba is the country with the lowest HIV infection rate...."why is that" you wonder?
MSNBC - not my favorite news source, but it will work...
"Cuba stopped quarantining in 1993 and allows people with HIV to stay at home after a course to teach them how to look after themselves and not spread the virus.
Universal free access to locally made generic antiretroviral drugs has kept AIDS cases and deaths very low, said the UNAIDS program.
Almost 20 years later, Cuba has one of the lowest rates of HIV infection in the world, a prevalence of less than 0.1 percent of its sexually active population.
That’s six times less than the United States and a big exception in the Caribbean, the second most-affected region in the world after sub-Saharan Africa, according to UNAIDS.
Cuba, a country of 11 million people, now focuses heavily on prevention and will mark World AIDS on Thursday by sending out volunteers to distribute free condoms on the streets of central Havana to encourage safe sex."

Yay for Cuba! VIVA LA REVOLUCION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You can help out at avert.org

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