HAVANA, Cuba, May 7 (ACN) Cuba is ready to cooperate, as much as possible, in the global fight against the HIV/AIDS pandemic, assured first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the country, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, when welcoming Winnie Byanyima, executive director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), at the Palace of the Revolution.
It is our greatest wish, stressed the head of state, that during her mandate at the leadership of this important program “we can make progress in the global attention to this disease, and we are sure that because of her interest, commitment and dedication, we will take steps forward in that direction”.
Diaz-Canel explained to the official several issues associated with the Strategy implemented by Cuba to deal with this scourge. It is a strategy, he said, that is “based on social prevention, putting people living with HIV/AIDS at the center of attention”.
He stressed that Cuban program has a community and intersectoral approach, involving all the entities, agencies, organizations and ministries that have a role to play in the prevention or treatment of the disease.
Likewise, the President explained, it has a multidisciplinary projection, taking into a