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- Subject: Re: American Public Health Association Protests Denial of Cuban Health Minister's Visa
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- Date: 16 Nov 92 17:51:21 GMT
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- David Sangurima Posts:
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- >Here is a press release from the American Public Health Association.
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- > WASHINGTON, Nov. 11 -- The Executive Board of the American
- >Public Health Association (APHA) has registered its strong
- >protest of the U.S. State Department's refusal to grant an entry visa
- >to Dr. Julio Teja Perez, minister of public health of Cuba.
- > APHA invited Teja to participate in its 120th annual meeting now
- >taking place in Washington, D.C. In his letter, APHA Executive
- >Director William H. McBeath reminded Acting Secretary of State
- >Lawrence Eagleburger that "Effective public health programs and
- >services are forged from a wide array of thought and practice, both
- >national and international. Public health professionals in the U.S.
- >have much to learn from our Cuban colleagues, who have fashioned many
- >innovative and successful strategies to problems we face in our own
- >communities."
-
- Of course they have a lot to learn, but if they let them in, then the protest
- note would come from the gay community in the U.S. which has seen how AIDS
- patients in Cuba have been interned in concentration camps where they await
- their final days secluded from society, in order to maintain a healthy
- population of prostitutes so that tourist dolars can keep coming in. If "Dr."
- Teja would come here and vent his ideas on AIDS prevention we might soon see
- Alcatraz remodeled to accomodate new guests being moved out ot the Castro
- District in San Francisco. And they sill wonder why we can't allow this?
- Nevertheless, since there are no travel restrictions for attending conferences
- in Cuba, perhaps our poor medical professionals here would like to host their
- event in Havanna, where they could have an eyewitness account of "Dr" Tejas's
- medical revolution, and spend some of their incomes subsidizing it.
-
- Edelmiro
-