Selling the Public Sector: Latin America reacts; El Salvador: Who Will Have the Hospitals?
In El Salvador, efforts to put the public health system into private hands have provoked a wave of opposition: Last ...
BRAZIL Activists Take on AIDS
Several times each hour on prime- time television, the Brazilian govem- ment's latest and flashiest AIDS adver- tisement punctuates the ...
Despite U.S. Embargo, Cuban Biotech Booms
Beginning in the early 1960s, biotechnology and medical research became a top priority of the Cuban government, which invested over ...
Good Medicine: Brazil’s Multifront War on AIDS
Brazil is often singled out as an outstanding example of a developing nation with a successful program to slow the ...
Stories in the Time of Cholera: Race and Public Health in Venezuela
In 1992 and 1993 some five hundred people died in the maze of rivers and thousands of large and small ...
