>Public Meeting - Health in Cuba - Wed 21 Oct, 7.30pm
>John Wesley Room, Wesley Methodist Church, New Inn Hall Street, Oxford.
>
>Dr Sarah Stewart-Brown Director of the Health Services Research Unit,
>University of Oxford welcomes
>PROF. THEO MACDONALD, author of 'Hippocrates in Havana',  to speak on
>'Health
>in Cuba'.
>
>Theo. MacDonald is currently working on a new book on the impact of the US
>blockade on Cuba's health service.
>
>This meeting is supported by local trade unions - the health branches of the
>MSF and UNISON - who will report on the project 'SALUD!, A UNION SHIP FOR
>CUBA' which will leave for Cuba this coming spring with practical support
>for Cuba's Health Service.
>
>Notes
>General description of health in Cuba:
>Pan American Health Organisation - http://www.paho.org/english/cuba.htm
>
>On the impact of the US blockade on health:
>American Journal of Public Health
>http://www.usaengage.org/news/9701ajph.html
>American Association for World Health
>http://www.igc.apc.org/cubasoli/aawh.html
>
>Regards,
>Mark Ladbrooke
>
>Secretary Cuba Solidarity - Oxford
>

Practical and constructive support for Cuba's health service is to be 
welcomed in the face of the USA's aggressive and illegal stance. It is 
also to be hoped that this kind of positive engagement offers an 
opportunity for cases such as that of Dr Desi Mendoza Rivero to be 
raised.

See below (extract from AI website).
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"Dr Desi Mendoza Rivero, President of the Colegio Médico Independiente 
de Santiago de Cuba, Santiago de Cuba Independent Medical Association, 
was arrested in June in Santiago de Cuba. He had accused the authorities 
of covering up the extent of an epidemic of dengue fever in statements 
to foreign news media. He was tried in November on charges of using the 
mass media to spread "enemy propaganda" and sentenced to eight years' 
imprisonment."

Source: Amnesty International Report on Cuba 1998
www.amnesty.org/ailib/aireport/ar98/amr25.htm
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Dr. Tom Marshall,
Honorary Lecturer in Public Health Medicine,
Department of Public Health & Epidemiology,
University of Birmingham,
Edgbaston,
Birmingham,
B15 2TT,
U.K.

Tel:    (44) 121 414 7422
Fax:    (44) 121 414 7878




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