Introduction: setting the scene
Origins and evolution: from "beggar's helper" to a "white-jacketed army"
Elam, a school for all nations
Dealing with the "handicapped" of ALBA: setting the balance right
Operación milagro: bringing vision to millions
Cuba's international disaster responses: from 1960s Chile to the 2005 Henry Reeve Brigade
South-South cooperation in biotechnology: medicine for the masses
The Cuba-Venezuela medical partnership: the Castro-Chávez dream lives on
Cuba's role in Haiti: hurricanes, an earthquake, and cholera
Cuba's medical internationalism in the South Pacific
The children of Chernobyl: 25,000 treated
Cuba's medical internationalism in El Salvador since Hurricane Ida
Conclusion: no longer the world's best-kept secret.