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Cuba becomes first country to end mother-to-child HIV, syphilis transmission (OK, al-Reuters)
Reuters ^ | Tuesday, June 30, 2015 - 01:11 | Diane Hodges

Posted on 07/01/2015 3:21:41 PM PDT by Olog-hai

(From Video Transcript:)

The World Health Organization says Cuba has reached one of the greatest public health milestones possible.

It has ended the mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis.

At a news conference in Havana, WHO representative Jose Luis di Fabio praised Cuba’s health system. […]

UNICEF Representative Anna Lucia d’Emilio says Cuba’s achievement shows that ending the AIDS epidemic is possible. …

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: alreuters; cuba; hiv; liars; syphilis; unicef; unitednations; who; worldcommunism
This stuff reads like North Korean propaganda.
1 posted on 07/01/2015 3:21:41 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Does it involve abortion?


2 posted on 07/01/2015 3:24:45 PM PDT by NewHampshireDuo
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To: Olog-hai

And if you believe that.....


3 posted on 07/01/2015 3:25:00 PM PDT by dhs12345
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And they’ve eliminated poverty and baldness, too. Wow, those Commies are so brilliant. That’s why everyone’s trying to get into their marvelous countries.


4 posted on 07/01/2015 3:25:18 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("And that drummer from that one band whose name I can't remember is also dead."~SamAdams76)
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To: Olog-hai

And yet, the country has chronic shortages of antibiotics.


5 posted on 07/01/2015 3:26:02 PM PDT by fatnotlazy
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This stuff reads like North Korean propaganda.
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Observant ... Cuba , like the Soviet Union in it’s heyday , has a 90%+ abortion rate ,,, it’s not much of a stretch to mandate that all pregnant women with HIV abort.. I trust their numbers less than I trust Obama’s U3 unemployment numbers.


6 posted on 07/01/2015 3:26:14 PM PDT by Neidermeyer ("Our courts should not be collection agencies for crooks." — John Waihee, Governor of Hawaii, 1986-)
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They probably shot everyone who had it.


7 posted on 07/01/2015 3:33:05 PM PDT by GenXteacher (You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
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To: Olog-hai

North Korea has already cured AIDS, cancer and Ebola. What took Cuba so long?


8 posted on 07/01/2015 3:37:21 PM PDT by ArcadeQuarters ("Immigration Reform" is ballot stuffing)
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To: Olog-hai

I don’t believe it.


9 posted on 07/01/2015 3:38:30 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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Maybe they don’t know about the mass graves.

Works every time.


10 posted on 07/01/2015 3:39:10 PM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it)
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To: NewHampshireDuo

You beet me to it. I was going to say, it is called abortion. Dead babies don’t get HIV.


11 posted on 07/01/2015 4:03:45 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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I remember reading something early on in the AIDS epidemic, when American homosexuals were resisting common-sense measures like shutting down the bath houses, that Cuba was isolating those with AIDS from the general population. That would be an effective way to minimize the spread of the virus. They seem to have a much lower prevalence even today than nearby countries like the Bahamas, Haiti, or the Dominican Republic so maybe that tactic worked. (I say “seem to” because who knows how accurate their medical statistics are.)


12 posted on 07/01/2015 4:10:00 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Olog-hai

I remember reading something early on in the AIDS epidemic, when American homosexuals were resisting common-sense measures like shutting down the bath houses, that Cuba was isolating those with AIDS from the general population. That would be an effective way to minimize the spread of the virus. They seem to have a much lower prevalence even today than nearby countries like the Bahamas, Haiti, or the Dominican Republic so maybe that tactic worked. (I say “seem to” because who knows how accurate their medical statistics are.)


13 posted on 07/01/2015 4:10:00 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Olog-hai; All
This story is not exclusive to Reuters. Other sources are reporting it too.
14 posted on 07/02/2015 8:02:16 AM PDT by EveningStar
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It’s probably simply abortion or infanticide. Dead babies don’t suffer with disease.


15 posted on 07/03/2015 6:18:43 AM PDT by Morpheus2009
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