Cuba named first country to end mother-to-child HIV transmission. No injectable drugs and no queers helped a lot.

[Remmy]

The World Health Organization on Tuesday declared Cuba the first
country in the world to eliminate the transmission of HIV and
syphilis from mother to child.

The WHO said in a statement that an international delegation
that it and the Pan American Health Organization sent to Cuba in
March determined the country met the criteria for the
designation. In 2013, only two children in Cuba were born with
HIV and five with syphilis, the statement said.

"Cuba's success demonstrates that universal access and universal
health coverage are feasible and indeed are the key to success,
even against challenges as daunting as HIV," PAHO Director
Carissa Etienne said in the statement.

Cuba's Communist government considers its free healthcare a
major achievement of the 1959 revolution, although ordinary
Cubans complain of a decline in standards since the fall of the
Soviet Union, the country's former benefactor, in 1991.

The PAHO and WHO credited Cuba with offering women early access
to prenatal care, HIV and syphilis testing, and treatment for
mothers who test positive. The two organizations began an effort
to end congenital transmission of HIV and syphilis in Cuba and
other countries in the Americas in 2010.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/30/us-cuba-health-
idUSKCN0PA2B520150630

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Castro's Cuba once hauled off homosexuals to prisons and
nuthouses.