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 ...
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 ...
