Foreign press manipulates data on AIDS in Cuba

[Judi Lynn]

Foreign press manipulates data on AIDS in Cuba

Progreso Weekly • February 24, 2015



The news of the discovery in Cuba of a recombinant form of HIV that progresses rapidly to AIDS has been disseminated by various media outlets in recent days.

The news was the result of a joint international project by the University of Liège and the Catholic University of Leuven (both in Belgium) and the Pedro Kouri Institute of Tropical Medicine (IPK) in Cuba.

A misinterpretation by the Miami newspaper El Nuevo Herald raised ethical questions about the treatment given by Cuban doctors to the infected patients who took part in this study.

Professor and chief researcher Vivian Kourí, Ph.D., a second-degree specialist in microbiology who works at the Sexually Transmitted Diseases laboratory (ITS) at the IPK’s Virology Department, said:

“The wrong manipulation did not appear in most of the media but in some very specific media that attempt to discredit the Cuban health system and take advantage of everything to do so, no matter how senseless it may be.

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[forest444]

1. Cuba is probably is probably the only country in the Caribbean basin

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that does not have a AIDS crisis. But of course, up is down to many in the media.

The rate of HIV prevalence in Cuba is less than 1 in 1000 adults, compared to 5 in 1000 for Latin America as a whole, and 13 in 1000 in the Caribbean (16 per 1000 if you exclude Cuba).

http://www.unaids.org/sites/default/files/en/media/unaids/contentassets/documents/epidemiology/2013/gr2013/UNAIDS_Global_Report_2013_en.pdf