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BOLIVIA became the latest Latin American country to roll out free healthcare to the poorest citizens as President Evo Morales launched the Unified Health System (SUS), which will reach an estimated 5 million people.
At least 70 per cent of the Bolivian population will be covered by SUS, which was described by World Health Organisation (WHO) spokesman Fernando Leanes as extraordinary and a model for Latin America at the opening conference in Cochabamba on Friday.
“The results are extraordinary in public health and collective health. They can be seen in the reduction of infant mortality, child malnutrition, the number of professionally attended births, diseases being put under control and population's healthy life years,” he said, acknowledging that Bolivia has tripled spending on health since 2006.
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CLAUDIA WEBBE says the US is tightening the noose to destroy Cuban socialism — the need for immediate, international solidarity is urgent
As the US intensifies its economic and political pressure it is now vitally important to demand the British government intervene to end US aggression, writes GEOFF BOTTOMS
Where normally only the US and its ally Israel vote to strangle Cuba economically, there have been special efforts to slander and isolate the besieged socialist island nation year — so we must redouble our solidarity, writes TARIQ ANDERSON