Ebola and the challenge to humanity
President of Cuba Raul Castro opening remarks at the Special ALBA Summit on Ebola.
Venezuelan opposition attacks Cuban health workers
Cuban doctors contribute to the long term construction of systems of public health throughout the global South, health systems that were abandoned or disregarded during decades of neo-liberalism.
Cuban doctors attend to Brazil's underserved
The 400 Cuban doctors are part of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's "More Doctors" program joined, by several hundred physicians from Uruguay, Argentina, Spain, and Portugal and 1096 from Brazil itself.
Venezuelan right wing creates false crisis on Chavez inauguration
The stakes in this situation are high not only for Venezuela but for the entire Latin American and Caribbean area.
President Chavez of Venezuela to Cuba for cancer treatment
For the fourth time in a year and a half, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez left for Cuba on Sunday for cancer treatment.
Honduran resistance group forms political party
Honduras' National Front for Popular Resistance gathered in Tegucigalpa, Feb. 11-12, to launch a political party. The name, Liberation and Re-foundation Party (Libre), is timely: Honduras is mired in catastrophe.
Austerity cuts in Greece cause suffering
"The thing doesn't end with salary cuts. It's the uncertainty of what will happen tomorrow, because each day they tell us something new."
Cuban-trained American doctor helps save lives in Haiti
Raising the dead with dopamine: An American doctor, graduate of Cuba's Latin American School of Medicine, devotes his residency to healing the people of Haiti.
Brits battle health service privatization
LONDON - The Royal College of General Practitioners and the Unite union joined other campaigners in speaking out against the conservative government's "Liberating the NHS" plan.
Stanford academics hit U.S. blockade on Cuba
The April 30 issue of the journal "Science" documents both Cuban health care accomplishments and harm to Cubans' health from the U.S. economic blockade.
