Abstract
As members of the global public health community, we thought the outgoing Trump administration in Washington could not do much else to shock us. But when President Biden revealed that his predecessor had left him not with a bad plan to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic—but with no plan at all—we were appalled, contemplating the nearly […]
Highlights
The first MOU, signed in June 2016, built on the two governments’ commitment to “deepen public health cooperation, focusing on communicable diseases including those caused by arboviruses such as Zika, dengue and chikungunya; as well as on the prevention and treatment of chronic non-communicable diseases, such as cancer.”
The agreement intended to strengthen “collaboration in these and other scientific and health areas.”. It noted that first efforts would be aimed at a health cooperation strategy “to address shared priorities such as: communicable diseases, principally arboviruses, including Zika, dengue, and chikungunya; non-communicable diseases, such as cancer, diabetes, hypertension, mental health and substance abuse disorders, and others; healthcare systems and public health management; quality management and patient safety systems in hospitals and outpatient settings; exchange of health professionals; health security and international health regulations; public health emergency preparedness and response; biomedical research and development, clinical trials, and medical product regulation; health information technology and the flow of health data; human services; and aging.”
COVID-19 is highlighted in this issue of MEDICC Review and featured in a Cuba’s Women of Science roundtable with investigators at the National Medical Genetics Center
Summary
The first MOU, signed in June 2016, built on the two governments’ commitment to “deepen public health cooperation, focusing on communicable diseases including those caused by arboviruses such as Zika, dengue and chikungunya; as well as on the prevention and treatment of chronic non-communicable diseases, such as cancer.”. If that is the case, the US president’s coronavirus task force should heed advice on the global cooperation urgently needed to stem the pandemic, which goes beyond staying in WHO, and listen to Dr Fauci’s own advice on health cooperation with Cuba.
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