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• 05 / 29 / 2007

UN-AIDS (Joint United Nations Program on HIV AIDS) coordinator for Jamaica, Bahamas and Cuba, Miriam Maluwa, expressed the complete satisfaction of that organ with the projects of this nation to confront the pandemic.

"Cuba has the smallest number of people living with HIV and the smallest number of people who die" as a result of AIDS in Western Hemisphere and of the Caribbean area, with a prevailing rate of 0.5 percent", Maluwa highlighted this weekend.

This evidences Cuban authorities are doing the right thing when treating this suffering, she expressed.

Maluwa described AIDS as a very important health matter, since, currently there are 250,000 people living with HIV in the Caribbean, the region hardest hit in the world by HIV AIDS.

"In 2006, there were 27,000 new people identified as seropositive. People mobility and other socio-cultural factors cause a greater vulnerability, so that the situation demands this issue be treated in a serious way.

In statements to Prensa Latina, Maluwa described as excellent an epidemiology and hygiene activity carried out at Convention Center Plaza America in Varadero, 86 miles East Havana.

Source: CubaSi