WORLD vs BLOCKADE. US Blockade Hampers Cuban Efforts to Combat HIV/AIDS.

Yesterday, October 25^th, for the 20th occasion the United Nation General Assembly voted the Cuban project resolution that urges the ending the US criminal economics and commercial blockade imposed to Cuban people for more than five decades. This was the result.

	WORLD vs BLOCKADE
	Cuba's overwhelming victory in the twenty-Cuban struggle against the blockade at UN In Favor Against Abstentions 186 2 3

                                        (Estados Unidos e Israel)       (Marshall Island, Micronesia and Palau).

Libia y Suecia did not vote

The Cuban Embassy will present a section of short news about the impact of this blockade over daily Cuban people’s life.

US Blockade Hampers Cuban Efforts to Combat HIV/AIDS

The economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States of America against Cubadisrupts Cuban cooperation with international multilateral organizations devoted to the fight against HIV/AIDS.

In January 2011, the U.S. government seized 4,207,000 dollars from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria earmarked for the implementation of cooperation projects with Cuba to combat HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis.

This deliberate act prevented the implementation of three projects whose significant impact on the affected population is well known, Cuba’s report on Resolution 65/6 of the United Nations General Assembly entitled "The Need to Put an End to the Economic, Commercial and Financial U.S. Blockade on Cuba" outlines.

This action is even more significant given that it affects funds earmarked for training in the treatment of HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis, as well as prevention and patient assistance. The funds were mainly destined to buying medicine, antiretrovirals and food.

Cuba has condemned this measure as an illegal action that also hinders the international cooperation provided by the United Nations System through its agencies, funds and programs.

U.S. President Barack Obama has nonetheless maintained and further tightened the economic blockade on the island despite the growing demand by the international community to put an end to U.S. hostility towards Cuba, the report indicates.

"The U.S. blockade is in its essence and aims an act of unilateral aggression and a permanent threat to the stability of a country," the document underscores. (PL)