mothers transmit the disease to their on Cuba, urging Washington fecting several European Union and to stop using threats and coercive babies during pregnancy or childbirth. European Economic Area countries. measures against the Caribbean nation. Officials urged governments to According to the agency, gonorrhoea The reaction followed the indict- strengthen sexual health education, cases have risen dramatically over the ment of former Cuban leader Raúl improve access to testing and treatment Castro by a US court over the 1996 past decade, while syphilis infections services, and encourage safer …
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