Honduras: Cuban-Trained Garifuna Doctors Supported in Hospital Expansion Drive
Diane Appelbaum and Hope Bastian
Photos by Diane Appelbaum
Honduran President José Manuel Zelaya Rosales, Minister of Health Elsa Palou, representatives of the Honduran Medical Association, and Cuban ambassador to Honduras Juan Carlos Hernández gathered recently in Ciriboya, an isolated indigenous community in La Mosquitia region of Honduras, to celebrate the...

Dr Fé Bosch and the October 10 Pain Clinic: Cuba’s Pain Care Pioneers
Text & Photos by Hope Bastian
July 30, 2008 - Around the globe, one in five people suffers from moderate to severe chronic pain; one in three is unable or less able to maintain an independent lifestyle due to pain. Between one-half and two-thirds of people with chronic...

Advancing the Global Health Agenda: World Health Organization Collaborating Centers in Cuba
Gloria Giraldo, MPH
July 22, 2008 - The World Health Organization promotes health research through a system of 944 Collaborating Centers spread across the globe in 99 countries. More than half of these centers, however, are concentrated in just 15 countries, mostly...

New Pediatric Liver Transplant Program Gives Cuban Children New Lease on Life
Text & Photos by Hope Bastian
April 25, 2008 - As the son of a surgeon father and a pediatrician mother, it should be no surprise that Ramón Villamil grew up to become Dr Villamil. Today, he is chief surgeon and coordinator of the interdisciplinary...

Cuba: More Doctors for the World
Gail Reed
April 14, 2008 - “Traditional models of medical training cannot resolve the terrible lack of health professionals and the urgent need for access to health care in today’s world,”  says Dr. Yiliam Jimenez, the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Relations’ Vice Minister for...

Cuba Already Feeling Effects of Climate Change
Hope Bastian
April 8, 2008 - Although public health is one of the sectors most threatened by climate change, the effects of this global crisis on health are not central to international climate change debates. ¨Climate change is sometimes debated as if it affected...

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