Word: embargoing
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...embargo's impact on health care has become an issue for U.S. groups like Pastors for Peace, which feels morally obliged to circumvent the ban by sending humanitarian aid to Cuba. Some of the aid may not reach those who need it most: there are complaints in Havana that donated medicines are being diverted to the government's dollar-only stores. As the medical scarcities multiply, discontent over the pride of the revolution is bound to increase...
...daughter, deathly ill with a cancerous tumor, hangs in the balance: the doctors have prescribed chemotherapy, but two of the five drugs needed for treatment are unobtainable in Cuba. Both medications are readily available in Miami, only a 30-minute flight away, but the 32-year-old U.S. trade embargo bars the unlicensed sale of medicine to Cuba. The father's last hope lies with an old woman who has agreed to smuggle $10,000 worth of chemotherapy drugs from Miami to Havana. When he spots her at last, he bursts into tears. Four hours later, his daughter is undergoing...
...long-respected health-care system in Cuba is faltering under the combined impact of the U.S. embargo and the loss of the East bloc as a reliable trading partner. While Cuba can still boast of having 51,000 doctors -- 1 for every 231 inhabitants -- it suffers from a critical shortage of medications and medical supplies. Last year's mysterious neuropathy epidemic, which affected more than 50,000 people and was apparently linked to nutritional deficiencies, has run its course with no deaths, but critical shortages are threatening to unravel a health system once described by the Pan-American Health Organization...
...embargo has tightened, Cuba has had to import more drugs from Europe, Japan and Canada, tripling costs of the medications needed to treat and prevent, for example, typhoid and whooping cough. A 1992 U.S. law forbids foreign subsidiaries of U.S. companies to sell to Cuba; Dutch and Swedish firms report that they too are being pressured by Washington to stop providing such items as catheters and sutures. A Canadian firm was even barred from selling Cuba a U.S.-made steel pin to repair a broken operating table. Medical journals are included under the embargo...
...fire at a meeting in Geneva. But the truce, which was supposed to take effect Friday, was quickly violated, and like previous cease-fires that have failed, the agreement provided no enforcement measures. Meanwhile, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a measure mandating the unilateral lifting of the arms embargo on the Bosnian Muslim government...