Global Fund to Fight AIDS lifts restrictions for Cuba

HAVANA TIMES, Oct. 31 — Cuba will be able to have unrestricted access to the financing of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Michel Kazatchkine, executive director of that international organization and currently on a visit to the island, announced. The Caribbean island nation has the lowest prevalence rate of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV, which causes AIDS) in the Caribbean, reported IPS.