UN Official Praises Cuba’s Fight against AIDS
Jan. 25 (ACN) – Carlos Cortes Falla, head advisor of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Cuba, praised the results Cuban strategies to prevent HIV-AIDS have obtained.
In an interview granted to ACN news agency in the framework of the 6th Congress on Sexual Education, Orientation, Therapy, under way in Havana, Cortes said Cuba shows one of the lowest HIV infection rates in all Latin America.
That is due to the will of the Cuban institutions that promote all possible prevention initiatives, he said.
Cortes added that the discipline and organization Cuban authorities show, specially the Public Health Ministry, in the fight against AIDS, was dubbed as exemplary by his organization in a meeting held in Uruguay.
“The work of institutions like the National Center for Sexual Education (CENESEX) and schools throughout the country to bring much needed awareness on the risks, has been very valuable as well”.
During the workshop “Local strategies in the prevention of AIDS”, Doctor Manuel Orta Sánchez, considered the key for the effectiveness of this strategies the training to health promoters that CENESEX and MINSAP have implemented.
