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WW PHOTO Left to right: The late Michael Callen, Leslie Feinberg, and the late Bobbi Campbell at first national AIDS protest march in Washington, D.C., Oct. 8, 1983.
epidemic as it has in other countries, where they don’t know how to confront, reduce or eliminate it. “We are in a situation that permits us to make this kind of decision, and to wait a while because we are not talking about something permanent, for a whole lifetime. We’re talking about a dialectical situation.” Terry added, “This aspect [quarantine] is controversial, some groups of scientists disagree with it.” He said that the objections were “more from a political than a scientific standpoint. But we believe our country has this epidemiological opportunity and we shouldn’t lose it. We are trying to prevent the spread of the virus throughout the country by means of sexual relations that our patients could have with other people who at this point have not been infected with the virus. “Our country has its own philosophy and the first principle of this philosophy is respect for human dignity. I think that human dignity requires care of the individual. You know that we spare no resources here to make sure that our people have the best health care possible anywhere in the world. And that’s part of what we’re trying to maintain in our battle against AIDS.” (Wald, 1987) The best care—for free Cuba provided free health care to its population despite economic obstruction by the U.S. and later the devastating loss of its main trading partner, the Soviet Union. Cuba organized its scarce resources—not just to stem transmission of the epidemic, but to provide humane care. “Organized like small communities,” MEDICC Review editors wrote in 2001, “the sanatoriums are made up of apartment complexes and small houses, plus infirmary, offices and other patient facilities.” (“Cuba’s HIV-AIDS Rate”) People with AIDS received healthy food, medications and other treatment, air-conditioned housing, exercise and sports, movies, television, videos, rest, and psychological and social services; everything was free except cigarettes. Cubans with AIDS continued to receive their full paychecks, even if they weren’t able to work. Their jobs were held open indefinitely. Terry stressed, “This is very important, so that they have no concern regarding the support of their families. “What other country in the world would be capable of paying full salary to people with AIDS?” Terry asked. “I think that’s very linked to the whole question of human rights and the controversies around this. We know there are countries that shout about human rights, such as the U.S. where a person who gets AIDS may die of hunger, lose his job, it’s hard to get into a hospital. Treatment there costs an average of $700 a day.” Terry added that the Cubans’ families also received special attention. A working group of psychologists, sociologists and social workers helped the families of people with AIDS deal with their problems, as well. Terry concluded that people with AIDS had greater peace of mind knowing their families were being cared for. 52 Rainbow Solidarity in Defense of Cuba
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LESLIE FEINBERG Rainbow Solidarity
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INTRODUCTION “Rainbow Solidarity
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waging covert war and threatening o
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Page 45 and 46: Attempts to supplant that new, scie
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Page 49 and 50: Arguelles and Rich revealed how U.S
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Page 60 and 61: Dealing with Aids Crisis Cuba mobil
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POSTSCRIPT: Cuba surpasses world on
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are trying to see how to do that, w
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Cardenal, Ernesto. 1974. In Cuba. N
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Feinberg, hoisting flag aloft, at B
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Cayo Cruz, 7 Centro Nacional de Edu
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