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Cuba consolidates tourism health

Cuba counts on sanitary conditions to consolidate a tourism with peace, good health and security, it was said in the 13th Congress of the Caribbean Medical Association (AMECA) to be concluded in this capital. Read More

Cuban elderly population increases

A third of the Cuban population will be over 60 years old by 2030, while more than 800 people currently are one hundred years old or more than that age, according to figures released in this capital on Saturday. Read More

US sister-city group highlights Cuba medical achievements

The US Boulder-Cuba Sister City Organization will screen a film at the University of Colorado on Monday presenting Cuba's health care achievements as an example to follow by countries that face serious problems in that important field of society. Read More

Cuba extends healthcare support to Ethiopia

Cuban health professionals are providing medical services in Ethiopia in order to curb the shortage of skills in some medical fields in the African country. Acting head of human resource development in the Ethiopian health ministry, Yohannes Tadesse, on Monday said Cuban health professionals were providing medical services at the Black Lion, St. Paul, Zewditu, Yekatit 12 and Minilik II hospitals in Addis Ababa. Read More

Vietnam helps produce Cuban Vaccine

Enterprises from Vietnam and Cuba started cooperated production Friday of the first lot of a Hepatitis B vaccine developed by Cuban scientists. Read More

Operation Miracle serving in the remotest areas of Guatemala

Jalapa, an eastern Guatemalan state characterized by dry lands, volcanoes and glass pottery, today has one of the most modern ophthalmological hospitals in the Central American country. Read More

Cuba wishes to collaborate in fight against malaria, HIV/AIDS

The Ambassador of Cuba to Angola, Pedro Ross Leal guaranteed that his country`s Government in is conditions to co-operate with Angolan health authorities in order to reduce deaths caused by Malaria, AIDS and Cholera. Read More

Cuba Marks World Health Day

"Investing in health to forge a safer future" is the main theme to mark the World Health Day this year, devoted to international sanitary security. During a press conference, the Pan American Health Organization representative in Cuba, Dr. Lea Guido, explained the difficulties of living safely in a globalized world, where diseases spread from one continent to another in a very short time. Read More

Cancer is third cause of premature death in Cuba

Cancer has become the third cause of premature deaths in Cuba at present, mainly due to alcoholism and smoking. According to the National Data Office, in 2005, 168.6 out of 100 thousand inhabitants died of malignant tumors, while in 2006 this figure increased to 171.5 deaths. Read More

Cuba: booster vaccine for 2 million youth

Over two million young Cubans are due to be revaccinated with MMR to prevent reoccurrence of measles, mumps and rubella, which have been eliminated in the country. Read More

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