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
The agreement, signed by Dr. Roberto Morales Ojeda, Cuban minister of Public Health, and Sylvia Burwell, U.S. secretary of Health and Human Services, is aimed at implementing collaboration projects
october 21, 2016@ 10:10:57 | Lisandra Fariñas Acosta
9th CUBAN DAY AGAINST HOMOPHOBIA AND TRANSPHOBIA
Activities to mark the 9th edition of the Cuban Day against Homophobia and Transphobia will be held from May 10
may 4, 2016@ 10:05:45 | 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
The mere fact of being able to tell Cuban families that a new, effective and safe Cuban pneumococcal vaccine will soon be available, work on which has been advancing since 2006, is already more than just “good news.”
february 7, 2018@ 13:02:07 | 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
CUBAN PEDIATRICS CONGRESS, PEDIATRÍA 2018
The Cuban Society of Pediatrics will hold its 28th National Congress January 23 through 26, dedicated to preventive aspects and problems affecting the health of infants, children and adolescents
january 18, 2018@ 11:01:42 | Lisandra Fariñas Acosta
Medical cooperation with Timor-Leste
When Fidel Castro extended his hand to then Prime Minister of Timor-Leste, Mari bim Amude Alkatiri, promising that Cuba would help train 1,000 health professionals from that country, free of charge, who would go on to serve their people, Isabel de Jesús Amaral never imagined she would have the opportunity to become a doctor…
february 15, 2017@ 10:02:11 | Iramsy Peraza Forte y Lisandra Fariñas Acosta
The clinical and epidemiological priorities and laboratory observation of pneumonia, in addition to advances in the Cuban preventative vaccine project were discussed during the Eighth Microbiology and Parasitological Congress which concludes October 16 in Havana.
october 16, 2014@ 13:10:36 | Lisandra Fariñas Acosta
It is essential to promote behaviors that don’t expose older adults to abuse
february 14, 2018@ 12:02:11 | Lisandra Fariñas Acosta