[act-ma] 4/29 Salud a film about Cuba: A model health care system for the world

[July 26th Coalition]

Correction More details about location an corrected starting time

  Cuba: A model health care system for the world??
  A showing of the film: Salud

  With additional comments by Nancy Kohn


  Sunday April 29th
  6-9pm
  MIT Building 4 Room 231
  See Map http://student.mit.edu/map/mitmap.cgi?SEARCH=4

  Cuban snacks provided

  Don't miss this amazing documentary exploring the truly incredible
  health care system in Cuba. A timely examination of human values  and
  the health issues that affect us all, *Salud* looks at the  curious
  case of Cuba, a cash-strapped country with what the BBC  calls ‘one
  of the world’s best health systems.’  From the shores of  Africa to
  the Americas, *Salud* hits the road with some of the  28,000 Cuban
  health professionals serving in 68 countries, and  explores the
  hearts and minds of international medical students in  Cuba -- now
  numbering 30,000, including nearly 100 from the USA.   Their stories
  plus testimony from experts around the world bring  home the
  competing agendas that mark the battle for global health— and the
  complex realities confronting the movement to make  healthcare
  everyone’s birth right.

  For more info see www.saludthefilm.net

  Nancy Kohn has been a health care activist in Boston since
  1990. She earned a masters in public health at Boston University.
  Initially her work centered on the prevention of HIV/AIDS among
  adolescents and women of all ages. Since 1998 she has worked at The
  Access Project doing participatory research and organizing all over
  the U.S.  The mission of the Access Project is to strengthen
  community action, promote social change and improve health,
  especially for those who are most vulnerable.