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<h1 class="reader-title">US: San Francisco Lawmakers Call On
Cooperation With Cuba</h1>
July 22, 2020</div>
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<p>U.S. San Francisco City and County Supervisors Board
Tuesday approved bill N° 200773 that allows medical and
scientific cooperation with Cuba.</p>
<p>"The country of Cuba has a long history of providing
international medical aid to other countries with many
of its medical personnel directly involved in the fight
against COVID-19 as members of the specially trained
Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade against
Disasters and Serious Epidemics," the bill states.</p>
<p>For the bill's presentation, San Francisco supervisors
Hillary Ronen, Aaron Peskin, and Shamann Walton also
augmented the island's role in Ebola fighting in Africa,
as well as Cuba's pandemic management.</p>
<p>In May, Minnesota state lawmakers also introduced a
bill to ensure medical cooperation with Cuba on the
early pandemic. Richmond and Berkeley's cities also
established mutual aid projects with the island.</p>
<p> "The San Francisco Board of Supervisors encourages the
San Francisco Department of Public Health to explore
collaborations with Cuba to jointly face the COVID-19
pandemic, including initiating knowledge transfer about
Cuba's highly successful public health prevention
methods, methods for preventing infection of health
workers, and innovative treatments now being used in
China and elsewhere," the legislators added. </p>
<p>The Board also stressed Cuba's accomplishments in the
pharmaceutical industry despite the economic limitations
because of the U.S blockade, with promising meds like
Interferon Alfa 2b.</p>
<p>Cuba's ambassador to the U.S. Jose Ramon Cabañas
acknowledged the resolution as a way to enhance
bilateral relations. </p>
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