The United States calls Cuba’s medical internationalism

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/27001277

The United States calls Cuba’s medical internationalism “human trafficking” — but it’s really an internationalist lifeline for the Global South.

By Helen Yaffe
March 8, 2025

“On February 25, US secretary of state Marco Rubio announced restrictions on visas for both government officials in Cuba and any others worldwide who are “complicit” with the island nation’s overseas medical-assistance programs. A US State Department statement clarified that the sanction extends to “current and former” officials and the “immediate family of such persons.””

  • 4rds3f
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    2 days ago

    They are here in mx and they were reported to not know how to do simple tasks. I wish they were gone and the money used to hire local more better prepared doctors but the government is just paying a long debt to the cuban regime.

    • Bloomcole@lemmy.ml
      9·
      2 days ago

      https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3464859/

      in virtually every critical area of public health and medicine facing poor countries Cuba has achieved undeniable success; these include most prominently – creating a high quality primary care network and an unequaled public health system,

      According to official statistics (about which, as we’ll see, there is some debate), the infant mortality rate in Cuba is only 4.0 deaths per 1,000 live births. In the United States, it’s 5.9. In other words, an American infant is, by official statistics, almost 50 percent more likely to die than a Cuban infant.

      The infant mortality rate for Mexico in 2023 was 12.534 deaths per 1000 live births