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Results to prevent HIV/AIDS in Cuba start from the criterion to face this disease with an integral approach, the island's Deputy Health Minister Luis Strucht stated in this capital.

The president of the Cuban Parliament, Ricardo Alarcon, and his Panamanian counterpart, Pedro Miguel Gonzales, addressed ongoing preparations for a Continental Encounter in Solidarity with Cuba, to be held soon in Panama.

The Cuban Institute of Radio and Television (ICRT) awards every year the Artist of Merit distinction. This prize means many years of excellent work both as a professional and as a person.

Cuban MINTUR (Tourism) and CITMA (Science, Technology and Environment) ministries will start actions to keep the attractive quality of Varadero beach, main Cuban tourist resort.

Almost seven thousand health professionals from 56 countries have graduated from Cuban medical universities since 2005 through a project of the Havana based Latin American School of Medicine ''LASM'' and the Agreement of the Cuban Foreign Ministry.

“The solution to the problem is one of developing local initiatives. Decision-making is still very centralized. Not everything can come from the center – from the capital. There has to be municipal initiative; there has to be municipal life for people to be motivated.”

The cultural magazine Lettres de Cuba is already on line with the eighth issue of this year and, as usual, we point out some of the most relevant cultural events in our country during this month.

The extraordinary Cuban piano player Chucho Valdés gave a unique performance accompanied by his quintet to the delight of thousand of spectators who attended the show as part of the Byblos Festival, which is about to end in next August until next year.

The Cuban national baseball team walked away with the bronze medals of the 23rd World Junior Championship of the sport that concluded on Sunday in Edmonton, Canada.

El Sistema Computarizado para el Control y Seguimiento de Pacientes con Terapia Antirretroviral, que da servicio a todas las provincias de Cuba y capaz de controlar la carga viral y las infecciones oportunistas, fue expuesto en la Conferencia Mundial del SIDA, que sesiona en México.

El gobierno cubano rompió con uno de los principios centrales de su sistema al anunciar la eliminación de la igualdad de salarios en la isla.

Más de un millón de pesos ahorró hasta la fecha a la economía la empresa de artículos plásticos Juan Antonio Márquez de Ciego de Ávila, con la producción de insumos para los sectores Salud y Educación.

El equipo de béisbol juvenil de Cuba, pese a las presiones, derrotó a su similar de Australia, 6-2 y de esa manera se agenció el metal bronceado en el XXIII Campeonato Mundial, celebrado en la ciudad de Edmonton, Canadá.

Abdelaziz Bouteflika, presidente de la República Argelina Democrática y Popular, recibió a Roberto Blanco Domínguez, embajador de Cuba en ese país, por el término de su misión diplomática.