Numerous citizen initiatives have arisen with the disinterested and laudable support of Cuban emigrants, mainly based in Miami, who, in addition to bringing medicines and medical supplies to the island, have included the sending of condoms that are distributed free of charge by activists, without However, the effort is not enough to reach everyone.
On the day the fight against HIV-AIDS is celebrated, there are more complaints about the lack of condoms for sale in state establishments. “You go to a pharmacy and there isn’t one, you look for it on the classifieds site and a single condom can cost up to 40 pesos, a real madness,” a young man from Havana tells 14ymedio.
“It is more expensive to buy three condoms in the informal market, than to pay rent,” a young woman tells her friend outside a pharmacy located on Carlos III avenue. “My boyfriend can’t find them and he can’t afford them so expensive, so we’re not using them and that’s what God wants,” she said anguished.
“We are in a country where the main weapon to stop the disease, which is the use of condoms, does not exist right now,” was one of the comments that could be read today on the social network Facebook, where the Cubans criticized the poor performance of the State to comply with delivery plans to businesses.
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