March 26, 2006

Venezuela’s Sexual Revolution Within the Revolution

by Rachel Evans and Maurice Farrell
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“Only three countries in Latin America provide free HIV drugs — Venezuela, Brazil and Argentina. We fought to have HIV drugs distributed for free before [the 1998 election of Venezuelan President Hugo] Chavez. It was a hard fight, but we won universal access a short time before Chavez was elected. When elected, Chavez advanced — rapidly — the program of universal access...."
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