For the second consecutive year, Cuba ended 2018 with the lowest infant mortality rate in its history, and with four fewer deaths than the previous year, at 4.0 per thousand live births
january 7, 2019@ 16:01:45 | Lisandra Fariñas Acosta
HURRICANE MATTHEW IN THE CARIBBEAN
Granma International spoke with heads of Cuba’s medical brigades in Haiti, the Bahamas and Jamaica
october 5, 2016@ 13:10:10 | Laura Bécquer Paseiro y Lisandra Fariñas Acosta
Legislators concentrated their remarks on the need to ensure the efficient use and allocation of energy resources, as well as securing investment and development of renewable energy, in addition to other issues key to the social and economic development of the country
december 28, 2016@ 16:12:00 | Lisandra Fariñas Acosta y Lissy Rodríguez Guerrero
A mass tweet for Cuba will take place this Tuesday, an initiative organized by the Young Communist League, now in the final stretch of preparations for the movement’s Fifth Congress
june 30, 2015@ 18:06:41 | Lisandra Fariñas Acosta
With more than 300 contributions and broad consensus on inconsistencies in hypotheses about alleged sonic attacks on U.S. diplomatic personnel in Havana, the first day of an online forum of scientists and experts in different fields concluded - The debate will continue today
november 16, 2017@ 09:11:55 | Lisandra Fariñas Acosta y Sergio Alejandro Gómez
LATIN AMERICAN MEDICINE DAY
This December 3, celebrated in Cuba as Latin American Medicine Day, provided an opportunity to recognize those who, with disinterested humility, “struggle every day for the lives of our people and in other sister countries,” in the words read by Dr. Luis Curbelo Alfonso, from a congratulatory message sent by the Ministry of Public Health to an event held at the National Oncology and Radiology Institute (INOR.)
december 4, 2014@ 11:12:04 | Lisandra Fariñas Acosta
INSIDE CUBA
Since 1987, the United Nations Population Fund has worked to promote and protect the rights of youth
july 15, 2016@ 17:07:12 | Lisandra Fariñas Acosta y Lauren Céspedes Hernández
The 5th CIMAvax-EGF International Workshop on the first registered therapeutic vaccine against lung cancer concluded in the capital’s Convention Center
may 14, 2015@ 11:05:51 | Lisandra Fariñas Acosta
The search for effective therapies to treat Alzheimer’s disease – for which there currently exists no cure or medication to delay its progression – has been highlighted as a priority by the World Health Organization
may 26, 2017@ 10:05:41 | Lisandra Fariñas Acosta
The polyclinic Mario Muñoz Monroy in the Guanabo community of Havana, is one of 339 public health facilities recently renovated in the city, as part of a special repair and maintenance program
july 24, 2015@ 17:07:52 | Lisandra Fariñas Acosta