Debate on aids for cuba.?

debate on aids for cuba.

hello, i was wondering if anyone could help me find out how aids is treated in cuba versus how is aids treated for the USA. i鈥檓 having a debate for tomorrow in class and i need some information, i have some general ideas, but not enough. i also need to create questions to ask the US about their aids problem. basically i鈥檓 trying to say that the cuba aids program is better than the us鈥檚. please help!

Revolutionary Cuba is hailed by some as a shining example of how to combat successfully the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Today, Cuba has an HIV infection rate of less than 0.1 per cent, in a region that has one of the fastest growing infection rates in the world.

In Cuba today, people with HIV are guaranteed access to free medical care. And nobody can be fired from their jobs because they are carrying the virus.

Cuba to undertake a wide-ranging and comprehensive HIV/AIDS action plan - domestically as well as internationally, as part of Cuba's activist foreign policy.
As early as 1983, Cuba had already set up a National Commission on AIDS, before any cases had even been diagnosed, to educate its 11 million people. Sex education programs were subsequently introduced in the schools and TV ad campaigns informed Cubans about AIDS and the need to promote safe sex.

Because of the 40-year-old U.S. economic embargo against Cuba, no anti-retroviral drugs were initially available on the Caribbean island.

By 2001, however, Cuba's growing biotechnology sector was beginning to manufacture generic versions of several HIV/AIDS inhibitors.

Cuba is now one of the few developing countries that actually provides its HIV/AIDS patients with a full supply of free drugs.
From an international standpoint, Cuba has sent thousands of doctors and nurses to almost every part of the world to help in the valiant struggle against HIV/AIDS.

More strikingly, Cuba has promised to provide anti-retroviral drugs to its Caribbean friends for a cost well below market prices. It won't be long before countries in Latin America and Africa will also come calling.

This is even more impressive when you realize that Cuba is largely a poor, developing country locked in an undeclared war with its superpower neighbour only 145 kilometres away. As a comparatively rich and industrialized country, where is Canada's leadership on this critical issue?

Cuba's approach to the HIV/AIDS pandemic is a major success story. There is much that the rest of the world can learn from the compassionate Cuban experience.

No one is saying that Cuba has all the answers to the AIDS epidemic.

But as Nina Ferencic, a UNAIDS program development adviser for the Americas region, recently confided: "Cuba has lots of potential and lots to offer."