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
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 IN 2017
Cuba now has the lowest infant mortality rate in its history
december 29, 2017@ 10:12:20 | 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
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
According to a statement by the Pan American Health Organization, the report recognizes the existence of enormous geographical inequalities in access to mental health services
july 16, 2015@ 10:07:29 | Lisandra Fariñas Acosta
Maintaining infant mortality rate due to congenital defects at the historical low of 0.8 per thousand live births, for three consecutive years, is the pride of the National Center for Medical Genetics
september 19, 2019@ 14:09:56 | Lisandra Fariñas Acosta
Transmissible and non transmissible diseases, health and society, primary care, and family medicine, are some of the topics that will be addressed during the Third International Cuba-Heath Convention 2018
april 23, 2018@ 10:04:49 | Lisandra Fariñas Acosta
Behind the dream materialized in reaching an infant mortality rate below five per 1,000 live births for the ninth consecutive year, are the efforts, dedication, talent and responsibility of Cuban health professionals
january 4, 2017@ 11:01:45 | 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