Source: Xinhua
04-11-2009 11:49
Special Report: Tech MaxHAVANA, April 10 (Xinhua) -- A center to assist more than 2,000 HIV/AIDS patients from six eastern Cuban provinces was inaugurated Friday at the Juan Bruno Zayas hospital in Santiago de Cuba.
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| HIV/AIDS Cube (File photo) |
The center has high-tech equipment for immunology and virology analysis, surgical treatment, and endoscopic procedures. It also provides health counseling for patients and their relatives.
Cuban Deputy Public Minister Luis Estruch said the new center will track the patients from the six eastern Cuban provinces of Camaguey, Las Tunas, Holguin, Granma, Guantanamo and Santiago de Cuba. Until now, these patients had to go to Havana for treatment.
The inauguration of the center coincided with the opining of the International Rehabilitation Congress 2009 in Havana with participation of some 450 experts from 12 countries.
The first case of AIDS in Cuba was detected in 1986 and 10,454 HIV carriers had been reported till November 2008, of whom 3,910 had developed into AIDS.
According to the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), there are 33.2 million people living with AIDS in the world, including 2.5 million children.
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