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> John Wesley said: > In the early years of AIDS, persons with that condition were confined in > such institutions. > > In the Sixties and Seventies, poliotical dissidents were generally sent > to the UMAP forced labour units. > > MikeG. > > El pueblo armado jamas sera aplastado! > > * * * * > > Ken Hiebert replies: > I cannot recall the source, but I have been told two things about AIDS > in Cuba. One, that AIDS patients received the best treatment possible. > Two, that Cuba was successful in halting an explosion of AIDS. Perhaps > others will know more about this than I do. > ken h There's a substantial outline of AIDS treatment in Cuba as part of a long article with numerous references by Rachel Evans, 'Rainbow Cuba', at http://links.org.au/node/2671. This article indicates for one thing that no-one was sent to the UMAP in the 70s as they were closed in 1968. Perhaps if comrade Wesley or KieG or whoever he is has something to say he can aspire to Slee and Evans' rigour rather than making occasional and repeated brief snipes about policies of over 40 years ago, from which time there's been massive changes. The section on AIDS treatment in Evans' article includes the following: >>Opponents of Cuba charged the revolution with violating human rights and >>individual freedom. In a November 1988 Los Angeles Times article, New York >>city health commissioner, Dr Stephen C. Joseph, lambasted the program, >>stating it "can only be termed totalitarian. They test people involuntarily. >>They lock up people who test positive. They take away their employment. And >>they do so knowing that these people will be locked up for life." (Zonana, >>1988, paragraph 18.) >>The 2005 UNAIDS executive director, Peter Piot, disagreed. He praised Cuba >>as, "one of the first countries to take AIDS seriously as a problem and >>provide a comprehensive response combining both prevention and care" (Krales, >>2005, paragraph 5). Cuba enjoys status as a world leader in HIV-AIDS >>prevention because there has been "no dramatic increase in HIV transmission >>since the first case was diagnosed in 1986 and the country's HIV infection >>rate − 0.05 per cent − is one of the lowest in the world and >>exceptional in a region with some of the highest infection rates in the >>world" (Fawthrop, 2003, paragraph 3). By comparison, throughout the >>English-speaking Caribbean that borders Cuba, AIDS is the largest cause of >>death among men between the ages of 15 and 44 (Bauza and Collie, 2001, >>paragraph 6). >>As to critiques from the US, this is the country that allowed thousands to >>die and demonised its victims.<< ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
