Cuban deputy PM receives UN-AIDS executive director

[Judi Lynn]

CUBANEW/ACN
11 MAY 2024

HAVANA, Cuba, May 10 (ACN) Ricardo Cabrisas Ruíz, Cuban deputy prime minister and head of the ministry of foreign trade and investment (MINCEX by its Spanish acronym), received Winnie Byanyina, executive director of UN-AIDS and assistant secretary general of the United Nations, on her first visit to Cuba.

During the meeting, both parties reiterated their willingness to continue strengthening the fruitful cooperation in the fight against HIV/AIDS, as well as to promote South-South cooperation for the benefit of other countries in the region and the world, mainly in the African continent, with technology transfer projects.

Cabrisas stressed Cuba's support to the UN-AIDS mandate and in particular to its global strategy, and the Government's willingness to share Cuban experiences with the nations of the South in the prevention and fight against HIV/AIDS, according to a MINCEX press release.

He also highlighted the country's potential for the production of medicines, the transfer of technology and the training of personnel, among other aspects, and thus contribute mainly to the brotherly nations of the African continent.

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[Marcus IM]

1. Cuba has the lowest HIV/AIDS transmission rate in the W hemisphere

Thank you for posting.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Absolutely! Because of the blockade, Cuba had to create its own drug cocktails to combat the disease, too!

They devised their own treatment system in which the patient was taken into hospital areas, and treated over time with a structured regime, for as long as it would take, was given his/her salary he/she was making, was allowed to bring his/her partner to stay there, also, also totally supported, and they whipped it, didn't they?

The Cuban medical researches were directed to start producing enough of the drugs to share with other poor countries around the world which couldn't pay the astounding prices international drug producers were charging, as well, a proposition which never seemed to appeal, apparently, to ordinary commercial producers.

I was watching internet traffic on the subject at the time and saw it jammed with non-stop right-wing gibberish trying to claim Cuba was abusing people stricken with the illness, even sending them to prison, etc. They didn't even slow down when Cuba, a few years later, because the first Latin American country to legitimize gay marriages. Go figure, right?

Thank you, so much, Marcus IM!

[Marcus IM]

3. Amazing. If you remember, the "exiles" howling over the hospital system Cuba set up for intensive HIV/AIDS treatments.

They were just like the tRumpster/Qwackanon factions during Covid, rife with whack-a-doodle conspiracies ... those crazy conspiracies live on.

Back then it wasn't just GOP quacks doing the howling either - and still isn't. I'll leave it at that.

Cheers.

[Judi Lynn]

4. Oh, no! Your post reminded me of learning about the astounding rumor the "exiles" heard in Cuba about Castro

and his scheme to take their children from them which got so many putting their kids on planes to the US in the unbelievable "Peter Pan" movement, and sent them on over to liver here, then came over later to join them once they got their affairs in order. the "Pedro Pan" children. They flew away, didn't they?

Guess they outsmarted that ol' dictator, for sure. Oddly enough, he didn't take the children of any Cubans staying behind, for some reason. Maybe he had his heart set on the ones who left!