Twenty years after the UNDP published its first Human Development Report (HDR), it is plain that those ideas have been deeply influential and powerful. Yet, precisely because of that influence, the HDR’s Human Development Index now looks stale and in need […]
Cuba, a relatively poor, socialist, developing country has the lowest rate of HIV infection in the Caribbean subregion and a rate among the lowest in the world. Yet when we look at the published explanations for this, outside Cuba, we […]
Interviews with students from Timor Leste, Kiribati, Vanuatu, Tuvalu and Nauru who are studying at the Pacific School of Medicine in Cuba.
There are two types of health systems in the world, public and privatised, though in practice virtually all national systems are some form of hybrid. Nevertheless, these two opposing models drive much of the dynamics of health systems. The best […]
The common assertion that Cuba’s achievements in HIV/AIDS control have come at a cost in human rights is reinforced by US hostility toward its small neighbour. Nevertheless, a rights-based analysis may be one useful way of exmining the actual Cuban […]