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Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba
2020
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| Online Access: | https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=437569473012 https://www.redalyc.org/journal/4375/437569473012/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/4375/437569473012/html/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/4375/437569473012/437569473012.epub https://www.redalyc.org/journal/4375/437569473012/movil https://doi.org/10.37757/MR2020.V22.N2.11 |
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- Cuba’s Pedro Kourí Tropical Medicine Institute: Battling COVID-19 One Study, One Test, One Patient at a Time Gisele Coutin Jorge Bacallao-Gallestey Lila Castellanos-Serra Medicina This MEDICC Review roundtable brings you specialists from Havana’s Pedro Kourí Tropical Medicine Institute (IPK), who are working directly with testing, research and patient care during the COVID-19 pandemic. Founded in 1937 by its namesake, the Institute has gained considerable worldwide prestige. Today, it is a PAHO–WHO Collaborating Center for the Study of Dengue and Its Vector, and for the Elimination of Tuberculosis. Its main role within Cuba’s health system is as the national reference center for prevention, control, management and elimination of infectious diseases, including epidemics. Its 479 workers staff 32 departments, including laboratories, research and teaching facilities, a hospital and isolation center. The IPK's hospital treats later-stage AIDS patients, while the Institute is the national reference center for attention to all HIV-positive patients and maintains the national HIV/AIDS registry, as well as registries for other infectious diseases. The institution was responsible for training the Cuban doctors who served in West Africa during the 2014–2016 Ebola outbreaks and for those going abroad to assist in the COVID-19 response today, and its professionals offer an internationally-recognized biennial course on dengue. 2020 otro 1555-7960 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=437569473012 https://www.redalyc.org/journal/4375/437569473012/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/4375/437569473012/html/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/4375/437569473012/437569473012.epub https://www.redalyc.org/journal/4375/437569473012/movil https://doi.org/10.37757/MR2020.V22.N2.11 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=4375 MEDICC Review application/pdf Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba MEDICC Review (Estados Unidos de América) Num.2 Vol.22