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 […]
Interviews with students from Timor Leste, Kiribati, Vanuatu, Tuvalu and Nauru who are studying at the Pacific School of Medicine in Cuba.
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.