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   From: remmy@abc.com   
      
   The World Health Organization on Tuesday declared Cuba the first   
   country in the world to eliminate the transmission of HIV and   
   syphilis from mother to child.   
      
   The WHO said in a statement that an international delegation   
   that it and the Pan American Health Organization sent to Cuba in   
   March determined the country met the criteria for the   
   designation. In 2013, only two children in Cuba were born with   
   HIV and five with syphilis, the statement said.   
      
   "Cuba's success demonstrates that universal access and universal   
   health coverage are feasible and indeed are the key to success,   
   even against challenges as daunting as HIV," PAHO Director   
   Carissa Etienne said in the statement.   
      
   Cuba's Communist government considers its free healthcare a   
   major achievement of the 1959 revolution, although ordinary   
   Cubans complain of a decline in standards since the fall of the   
   Soviet Union, the country's former benefactor, in 1991.   
      
   The PAHO and WHO credited Cuba with offering women early access   
   to prenatal care, HIV and syphilis testing, and treatment for   
   mothers who test positive. The two organizations began an effort   
   to end congenital transmission of HIV and syphilis in Cuba and   
   other countries in the Americas in 2010.   
      
   http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/30/us-cuba-health-   
   idUSKCN0PA2B520150630   
      
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