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08 Feb Haiti: One Year with No Cholera Deaths where Cuban-led Medical Teams Working

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January 18, 2012—The Cuban-led medical teams in Haiti today reported exactly one year with no deaths among cholera patients treated by Cuban physicians and Latin American Medical School graduates working together in 34 hospitals and...

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29 Jul Cuba Graduates More Doctors for the World: Class of 2011 Includes 19 US Physicians

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July 23, 2011, Havana–Following stirring choral offerings ranging from Ave Maria to We Are the World, 19 US medical students were among those awarded their degrees at today’s graduation of physicians, nurses and allied health professions of the...

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09 Jul Staying the Course in Haiti

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By Conner Gorry in Haiti Predictably, the headlines have shifted away from post-quake Haiti. While millions wait for the billions pledged in March at the UN donor’s conference, emergency medical staff continue to retire from...

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16 Jun Redefining Health: From Cuba to California

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Last week Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba (MEDICC) held an event celebrating the three-year Oakland-MEDICC project, Community Partnerships for Health Equity. Representatives from 6 community health organizations in Oakland traveled with MEDICC to Cuba, bringing back “Lessons...

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07 May Making the Rounds: Hôpital Universitaire de la Paix

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By Conner Gorry in Haiti It’s not even 7:30 and already it’s hot and close as we board the bus for the circuitous, rubble-pocked ride to Hôpital Universitaire de la Paix. As the crow flies,...

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20 Apr Interview with Dr. Patrick Dely: Part II

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By Conner Gorry in Port-au-Prince “My future is to see my country transformed, a different country, where Haitians feel happy and proud to be in their country. Where they don’t need to emigrate, where Haitian children...

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05 Apr Interview with Dr Patrick Dely: Part I

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By Conner Gorry in Haiti Interview with Dr Patrick Dely: Part I Haitian Graduate of the Latin American Medical School “I want to see a Haiti where the kids go to school, where the adults...

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30 Mar Trilateral Accord Signed to Rebuild Haitian Public Health System

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By Conner Gorry In Haiti The health ministers of Haiti, Cuba, and Brazil gathered in Port-au-Prince over the weekend to announce signing of a cooperation agreement to rebuild the Haitian public health system. Joining the...

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18 Mar Love, Laughter & Art in Post-Quake Haiti

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By Conner Gorry In Haiti “Where there’s love, there’s life,” said Gandhi and Port-au-Prince has been overflowing with both since the arrival of the Martha Machado Artists’ Brigade here in Port-au-Prince. The brainchild of Cuban...

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13 Mar An Ounce of Prevention: Port-au-Prince Vaccination Campaign

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By Conner Gorry in Haiti At the beginning we were vaccinating around 250 people a day, but it´s tapered off to 70 or so,¨ Raysoly Yacob Flores, a Salvadoran nurse trained in Cuba tells me...

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