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Cuba: Health Care News

Cuba Announces New Vaccine for Cholera
Prensa Latina (21 April 2005)

Cuba Currently Produces Nine Antigen Vaccines
Prensa Latina (21 April 2005)

Cuba to assist with Antigua-Barbuda health care system
Caribbean Net News (April 2005)

When Ill, Venezuelans Call the 'Cuban Brigade'
Agence France Presse via Yahoo! (26 February 2005)

Cuba Moves Ahead with Lung Cancer Vaccine
Malaysia: The Star Online (7 February 2005)

Government hospitals to get Cuban Hepatitis B vaccines
(11 January 2005)

Cuba's Response to AIDS: A Model for the Developing World
By EDWIN KRALES (11 November 2004 - CounterPunch)

Cuban lessons on fighting AIDS
Peter MacKenna (29 July 2004-Toronto Star)

Cuban Doctors Aid Strife-Torn Haiti
Havana Journal / The State

Report: Cuban Health Care
2003 - en français (PDF)

The first multinational crop of doctors
Cuba's Latin American Medical School: Young people, professors and the dean of the Latin American School of Medicine talk about this project, from which professionals will start graduating from next year (Granma). NOTE: This article refers to Guatemalan student Jorge Mario Barrias, featured in the article below).

Cuba Medical Scholarship makes Guatemalan Dream Come True
From Catarina to Cuba

Medical Solidarity
A summary of Cuba's international health care missions - helping developing nations to develop their medical capacities and improve health indicators.

Cuba's doctors without borders
A real humanitarian intervention:
5 April 2004

Cuba Trains Doctors for Wealthy U.S.A.
Fitzhugh Mullan, M.D:Ê"Affirmative Action, Cuban Style," New England Journal of Medicine, Volume 351:2680-2682. December 23, 2004. Number 26.

Latin American Students Arrive in Cuba to Study Medicine
MEDICC Review

President of Guatemala acknowledges Cuba's internationalism
Medical brigade honoured

New Vaccine for Pneumonia & Meningitis
Cuba-Canada Research Pays Off

Cuba and AIDS
Articles and info

Cuba's Jewel of Tropical Medicine
- The Pedro Kouri Institute of Tropical Medicine (IPK)
Source: Pan American Health Organization

Health Statistics
Source: Pan American Health Organization

Cuba's malaria mission to Gambia
Granma International

Cuba's international medical missions
USA Today

Cuba offers medical scholarships to U.S. youth
USA Today

Cuban Cures
Scientific and marketing alliances are being forged between Cuban researchers and their Malaysian counterparts to come up with vaccines. (Malaysia Star)

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Cuba's Ministry of Health
MINSAP

Medicine & I.T.
InfoMed USA-InfoMed

Latin American
School of Medicine
ELAM

Medical Internships
in Cuba
MEDICC

Cuba Healthcare
various

Canadian Medical Association
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