CUBA-SALUD 2015
Debate at the Cuba-Salud 2015 international health care conference, taking place in Havana, has been focused on challenges facing public health systems around the world in efforts to provide universal health care. Cuba was recognized as having “the most universal health care system in Latin America and the Caribbean.”
april 23, 2015@ 10:04:11 | Lisandra Fariñas Acosta y Céspedes Hernández Lauren
CUBA IN 2017
Cuba now has the lowest infant mortality rate in its history
december 29, 2017@ 10:12:20 | Lisandra Fariñas Acosta
Highlighted Michel Sidibé, executive director of UNAIDS and under-general secretary of the United Nations
november 13, 2015@ 13:11:20 | Lisandra Fariñas Acosta
One month has past since the devastating April 25 earthquake in Nepal, and two weeks since the powerful May 12 aftershock, the same night Cuba’s Henry Reeve Medical Brigade arrived in the country. Forty-nine Cuban medical professionals are taking on the population’s needs, defying the damage, fear and grief around them.
may 25, 2015@ 10:05:47 | Lisandra Fariñas Acosta
CUBA–TIMOR-LESTE
The fraternal relations between Timor-Leste and Cuba have borne fruits over the past 15 years of diplomatic ties, and there remains huge potential for mutually beneficial cooperation
may 29, 2017@ 13:05:07 | Lisandra Fariñas Acosta
The More Doctors program currently has 18,240 posts in 4,058 municipalities. Close to 8,400 of these are occupied by Cubans, distributed over 2,885 municipalities
november 20, 2018@ 12:11:35 | Lisandra Fariñas Acosta y Daina Caballero Trujillo
According to Professor Jesús Menéndez, specialist at the Longevity, Aging, and Health Research Center (Cited), “elderly women (53.2%) outnumber elderly men, living an average of four years more…But living longer doesn’t necessarily mean living better”
july 19, 2017@ 11:07:48 | Lisandra Fariñas Acosta
83% of HIV/SIDA patients on the island are alive today thanks to over 30 years of work by the National STI/HIV/AIDS Control and Prevention program
november 18, 2016@ 08:11:45 | Karina Marrón González y Lisandra Fariñas Acosta
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
Maintaining infant mortality rate below five per 1,000 live births for the 10th consecutive year is reason enough for Cuba to celebrate
january 2, 2018@ 09:01:53 | Lisandra Fariñas Acosta