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
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
april 26, 2018@ 11:04:08 | Lisandra Fariñas Acosta y Alejandra García
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
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
Highlighted Michel Sidibé, executive director of UNAIDS and under-general secretary of the United Nations
november 13, 2015@ 13:11:20 | 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 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
march 14, 2017@ 10:03:04 | Lisandra Fariñas Acosta
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
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
march 19, 2018@ 10:03:11 | Lisandra Fariñas Acosta
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