The First Group / Los Primeros (2010)
Cuba has been training over 900 medical students from Timor Leste. In September 2010, the first group of eighteen graduated as doctors.
Cuba has been training over 900 medical students from Timor Leste. In September 2010, the first group of eighteen graduated as doctors.
Interviews with two Cuban doctors who are returning home after two years living and teaching in Timor Leste.
Cuban doctors and their large-scale medical training program came to Timor Leste in 2004, then to Kiribati, Nauru, Vanuatu, Tuvalu and the Solomon Islands over 2006-2008. By its size and focus, this ‘South-south’ program, more than any other, is transforming […]
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 […]
This paper considers distinct views of ‘capacity building’ in health aid, using the example of the largest health aid programme in the Asia-Pacific region, the Cuba-Timor Leste health cooperation. By 2008 there were 300 Cuban health workers in Timor Leste, […]
In 2003, Timor Leste and Cuba began a health cooperation program. By 2008, this included 300 Cuban health workers and 850 East Timorese students. This film is about those students.
The World Bank in 2004 sought to explain socialist Cuba’s success in public health, and juxtaposed Costa Rica as a contender for similar public health gains, through the orthodox model which stresses broad based growth , backed by increased private […]
The OECD’s Guidelines on Poverty and Health are compromised by neoliberal assumptions and corrupted by several major conflicts of interest. These conflicts of interest are embodied in the DAC guidelines, whereby specific OECD commercial interests influence the public policies of […]