Offering healthcare services in the country’s remote mountainous regions is a learning experience vital to the professional development of young Cuban doctors. After graduating they work for one year in offices in rural zones across the nation as part of their social service commitment
june 19, 2017@ 11:06:43 | Nuria Barbosa León
Friends of Cuba and people of good will around the world are raising their voices and carrying banners on the sidewalk in front of the White House to once again demand an end to the imprisonment of Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino and Antonio Guerrero.
september 16, 2014@ 12:09:05 | Nuria Barbosa León
Over 40,000 teachers and students from pedagogical schools, accompanied by their families, will lead the May Day march to Havana’s Plaza de la Revolución
april 26, 2016@ 10:04:52 | Nuria Barbosa León
July 21, in Havana’s Karl Marx Theater, more than 900 graduates received their diplomas as medical, dentistry, nursing and health technology professionals, including 124 international students from 32 countries
august 1, 2016@ 16:08:38 | Nuria Barbosa León
Canadian journalist and sociologist Arnold August was presented, in Havana, with the Friendship Medal awarded by the Council of State of the Republic of Cuba; an honor which he dedicated to the memory of Comandante en Jefe Fidel Castro Ruz
july 10, 2017@ 13:07:49 | Nuria Barbosa León
One of the sector’s key achievements has been to maintain an infant mortality rate below five per 1,000 live births for the last 10 years. In 2017, the country achieved a rate of 4.0; proof of its continued efforts to consolidate maternal-infant statistics, to the benefit of Cuban children and families
april 11, 2018@ 10:04:13 | Nuria Barbosa León
Walking the streets of Cuba, one notices the large number of people over the age of 60. According to estimates, this sector represents 19% of the island’s total population; which is why multi-sectoral strategies are being implemented to tackle population ageing
october 13, 2016@ 10:10:50 | Nuria Barbosa León
The Second International Symposium on Gender Violence, Prostitution, Sex Tourism and Human Trafficking is taking place January 23-25 in Havana’s La Pradera Convention Center
january 24, 2017@ 11:01:23 | Rachel Rivero Acosta y María Karla González Mir
MAY DAY
Committed to continuing to build a prosperous and sustainable socialism, the country’s more than 480,000 healthcare sector workers will celebrate International Workers’ Day with various activities taking place both in and outside the island
april 12, 2016@ 13:04:01 | Nuria Barbosa León
Approved during the meeting was the preparation of a group of activities to be implemented in the period 2015-2018, in fulfillment of various agreements approved during the Sixth PCC Congress.
february 24, 2015@ 11:02:09 | Granma