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Venezuela Strengthens National Health System, Marks Advance in Fight Against Poverty
March 4, 2010 ... approved for the fight against dengue, malaria, and chagas disease while another BsF800 million (US$186 million) have ... -
Venezuelans Celebrate 12 Years of Health Care Collaboration with Cuba
November 5, 2012 More than 53,000 Venezuelans have received free health care for chronic diseases in Cuba thanks to a bilateral agreement signed between the two Latin American nations that has increased social services and improved the quality of life for residents of the South American country. -
Chavez Saves "The Fierce People" - The Yanomamö
February 16, 2006 ... brought with them a number of other less benign gifts: disease, guns, tourism and a systematic eradication of their ... question (paraphrase): 'If your mission work brought a disease to the tribe you're working with - a disease that killed 200 people - but resulted in the ... -
"Cooperatives are the businesses of the future". Interview with Felipe Perez-Martí
September 17, 2003 ... economy, I realized that the problem of the “Dutch Disease” appears to be a very important issue for the ... without addressing the problem of Venezuela’s “Dutch Disease,” which makes it extremely difficult for domestic ... deal with this problem, assuming that there is a “Dutch Disease” in Venezuela? Perhaps you have a different ... -
Venezuelan National Assembly Declares National Health Emergency
January 28, 2016 ... contracted during pregnancy. “Venezuela has no endemic disease department, which means there is no authority ... the situation here. If the statistics don’t exist, the disease doesn’t exist and neither do public service ... -
Venezuelan Children’s Cardiology Hospital Celebrates Fifth Anniversary
August 16, 2011 ... hosting the International Conference on Congenital Heart Disease and is receiving cardiology experts from Spain, ... -
Barrio Adentro As Seen from the Perspective of a U.S. Health Professional
August 7, 2008 ... idea of the tremendous work that is being done to prevent disease and promote the health of the Venezuelan people. I ... has showed us that a band aid approach will not eliminate disease and health care has to be in concert with a radical ... -
Venezuelan Children with HIV/AIDS Receive Free Medical Treatment
November 14, 2003 ... HIV in Venezuela. Most of the children living with the disease were infected by their mother, in the womb or at ... demonstrates a lack of information and awareness about the disease. ''Prejudice is one of the biggest problems when ... children, the worst thing, the most dramatic aspect of the disease, is not the opportunistic infections, but the social ... -
A Pandemic Is No Time for US Economic Sanctions
March 25, 2020 ... a massive outbreak, judging from the rapid spread of the disease since the first diagnosis in that country 12 days ... on countries that are struggling to deal with the disease. The Treasury Department should also issue guidelines ... -
Ex Venezuelan President Rafael Caldera Dies
December 27, 2009 ... his last years due to poor health caused by Parkinson’s disease, and died on 24 December aged 93. He was buried ... -
Smoking Banned in Public and Commercial Closed Spaces in Venezuela
May 30, 2011 ... achievements of the Venezuelan government in terms of disease prevention and health promotion, when taking into ... -
Talking Dirty About Revolution: Sexual Health and Gender Inequality in Venezuela
August 20, 2007 ... face health problems including higher rates of disease, STDs, unplanned pregnancies and unsafe abortions. ... for so long, they don’t know if they have a chronic disease like hypertension or diabetes. So on our health ... and long term."[1] Accurately knowing the prevalence of disease makes community-directed interventions more ... -
Venezuela Launches New Mission for Health of the Disabled
March 17, 2008 ... will collaborate with “quartets” made up of a genetic disease specialist, a doctor from the local Barrio Adentro ... -
WHO Disproves Claims of Polio Return in Venezuela
June 21, 2018 ... stool samples, spurring rumours of a return of the disease in the Latin American region. However, further WHO ... , better known as polio, is a highly infectious viral disease that invades the brain and spinal cord and causes ... -
“A Daunting Situation”: Doctor Zaira Medina Speaks about Venezuela’s Medicine Shortages
September 2, 2014 ... sought out for patients with hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, lung diseases -- catastrophic sicknesses. Many of ...