Plates were placed with the inscription "Here lives a hero of our time" in the homes of the 28 health professionals from Granma that are facing the Ebola epidemic in West Africa. Read More
Last Friday was inaugurated in Monrovia, Liberia, a treatment center for Ebola built in collaboration with the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and where will work Cuban doctors. Thus both countries come together to fight the epidemic. Read More
On Sunday October 26 a Cuban collaborator died serving in Guinea Conakry. The Cuban Ministry of Public Health has reported that the cause of death was not Ebola, but malaria, the worker was not in contact with sick people. Read More
Rapid support response provided by Cuba to the World Health Organization facing the epidemic of Ebola, which has caused more than 4000 deaths in Africa, is admirable. The New York Times published an article to praise the work of Cuban doctors and nurses who took the step forward. Read More
The number of people in Cuba with HIV/AIDS currently stands at 16,479, according to figures published Monday in the official weekly Trabajadores Read More
The Cuban government has announced that its public health system will prioritize the purchase of specialized equipment and disposable diapers to address the challenges posed by the island’s elderly. Read More
The Brazilian government announced Friday that it will raise the wages of close to 7,400 Cuban doctors it recruited for its healthcare program in poor areas following the defections that occurred at the beginning of the month Read More
Cuba has treated more than five thousand patients with stem cells, figure that places the country in an important position in the region for the use of regenerative medicine, the Cuban journal Granma published today. Read More
French company Abivax and the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB) in Cuba announced an agreement here today to partner in the development and commercialization of vaccines, among them, one against the Hepatitis B virus Read More
Nearly one hundred Salvadorian medical doctors graduated at the Havana-based Latin American School of Medicine held the first meeting of the recently created Association of Medical Professionals Graduated in Cuba Read More
