Interesting reading for some:a report on observation of Cuban medical brigades in Haiti, Honduras,

[Judi Lynn]

Venezuela, and the Latin America School in Havana:

Report of visits made to Haiti, Venezuela, Honduras and Cuba to see the work of the Cuban Medical Brigades 2003-2005.

http://www.salud.org.uk/new_page_1.htm

[Judi Lynn]

1. You may also want to check this. F'r instance, did you know Haiti has the highest maternal mortality

rate in the Hemisphere? The physician who wrote this report says that when the mother dies, the children left behind are also at serious risk. This is something most people never take the time to consider.

This is a very sobering report, which you may want to study.

Whither equity in health? The state of the poor in Latin America

Paul Farmer
Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, U.S.A

http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S0102-311X2007001300002&script=sci_arttext&tlng=.