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Women live longer, but have poorer health

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”

Cuba joins two strategic health funds (+ Photos)

Dr. Francisco Durán García, national director of Epidemiology, described the signing of the Regional Revolving Funds for Vaccine Procurement and Strategic Public Health Supplies, between PAHO and the Cuban Ministry of Public Health, as an opportunity for the island to maintain stability in the acquisition of medicines, essential resources for public health and its immunization program

AIDS: Prevention in our hands

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

CUBA-SALUD 2015

Lessons learned and applied

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.”

INSIDE CUBA

Investing in youth: The future is now

Since 1987, the United Nations Population Fund has worked to promote and protect the rights of youth

Fifty years of Cuban nephrology

The achievements of five decades of continuous efforts to develop and perfect Cuban nephrology will be presented by the Dr. Abelardo Buch López Institute of Nephrology (INEF), which will host various activities March 16 - 18 to mark the 50th anniversary of this specialty on the island

CIMAvax-EGF: Safe and effective

The 5th CIMAvax-EGF International Workshop on the first registered therapeutic vaccine against lung cancer concluded in the capital’s Convention Center

Malnutrition threatens the world

Obesity kills as many people as hunger. According to the World Health Organization, at least 2.8 million people die each year as a result of this epidemic

LATIN AMERICAN MEDICINE DAY

Medical professionals honored

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.)