The BBC reports
Cuba has successfully eliminated mother-to-child transmission of both HIV and syphilis, the World Health Organization (WHO) says. The head of the WHO, Dr Margaret Chan, called it one of the greatest public health achievements possible. It follows years of efforts to give pregnant women early access to prenatal care, testing and drugs to stop these diseases passing from mother to child.
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In Cuba, according to the available official data, less than 2% of children whose mothers have HIV are born with the virus - the lowest rate possible with the available prevention methods.
Untreated, they have a 15-45% chance of transmitting the virus to their children during pregnancy, labour, delivery or breastfeeding.
Kudos to Cuba!
(Score: 2) by ilPapa on Wednesday July 01 2015, @11:52PM
Do you really consider those two sites "sources" of anything but right-wing anti-Cuba propaganda?
The BBC is bogus, but cubaverdad.net and sweetness-light.com are reliable?
If push comes to shove, I can find a "source" that claims vaccines cause autism, too. You have to be a little more discerning than that.
You are still welcome on my lawn.
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Thursday July 02 2015, @01:14PM
No, I don't. Sorry if I implied I did.
My original story, I think, was on medium, a long-form journalism site that's a little less uncredible.
I recognize those as possible propoganda, even more so than the original thing I read.