Global Health Update Ebola 11/5

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Cuba’s Grand Gesture
For a small island nation, Cuba has stepped up in a big way in the Ebola response, committing to send nearly 500 doctors to West Africa—shaming large countries slow to respond to WHO’s pleas for more doctors.

But Cuba’s support did not come out of the blue; Cuba has pinned its diplomatic strategy and even its economic health on such moves, as Jon Lee Anderson writes in this article. Cuba has one of the highest proportions of doctors (83,000 for its population of 11 million) in the world, and it has made a name for itself sending doctors to emergencies from, Pakistan to Haiti, and providing medical education to students from Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
** The New Yorker (http://jhsph.us3.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=0a43ad874dbe00d8f0545cfef&id=d049fed5f3&e=9c1fcebfa3)


Related: Many Mysteries Still Surround Ebola – ** Scientific American (http://jhsph.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0a43ad874dbe00d8f0545cfef&id=f0410d7c80&e=9c1fcebfa3)


Related: Treating Ebola without Fear – ** The New York Times (http://jhsph.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0a43ad874dbe00d8f0545cfef&id=7767b3eaf4&e=9c1fcebfa3)


Related: Thousands in Sierra Leone break Ebola quarantine to find food – ** Associated Press via NBC (http://jhsph.us3.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=0a43ad874dbe00d8f0545cfef&id=857531f3ff&e=9c1fcebfa3)


Related: WHO asks Canada to justify Ebola-related travel restrictions – ** CIDRAP (http://jhsph.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0a43ad874dbe00d8f0545cfef&id=bd9b6f150e&e=9c1fcebfa3)

Related: Ebola and insurance: A complicated mixture – ** CBS (http://jhsph.us3.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=0a43ad874dbe00d8f0545cfef&id=51eb0be8fe&e=9c1fcebfa3(Econwatch+-+CBS+News)