BY ADAM WILLEMS.Photography by Franklin Reyes and the Wikimedia Foundation. Cuban medicine is unique in its international focus. Even while its people faced a severe shortage of physicians, the revolutionary government sent its first medical team abroad in 1960 to respond to an earthquake in Chile. With a significantly larger medical workforce today compared to … Continue reading Cuba: Medicine and Medical Internationalism
BY JESSICA A. LOPEZ.Photography by Kara Sheppard-Jones and Adam Jones. Cuba’s economic crisis in the 1990’s, known as the Special Period, saw the enactment of the most concentrated health reforms in a single decade. These reforms were prompted by the 1989 collapse of the Soviet block; Cuba’s most important trading partner at the time. Imports decreased … Continue reading Cuba: Agricultural Reform in the Special Period
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