Today's quick reads
Three articles selected for you today from New Internationalist magazine.
Timor, Cuba - and the making of a medical superpower
416 - October, 2008
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Every year Cuba, a Majority World country of only 10 million people, sends more than 30,000 volunteer medical workers to 93 countries around the world. Surgeon Katherine Edyvane recounts the little-told story from first-hand experience.
Getting fair treatment
Brazil’s AIDS fight against Big Pharma continues
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