The Un Abril por la Pediatría (An April for Pediatrics) campaign will be carried out throughout Cuba this month to highlight the importance of children's health and the work of professionals in their care, and to promote various actions to raise awareness about the challenges in this area of medicine.

A day of scientific activities and community interventions will be held in Cuba to celebrate World Health Day on April 7, dedicated this year to maternal and newborn health, under the slogan "Healthy beginnings, hopeful futures," health authorities announced today at a press conference.

Intended to promote pediatric care throughout the month by means of scientific, educational and community events, the campaign Un abril por la pediatría (April for pediatrics) kicked off at a children’s hospital in the city of Guantánamo.

The Abel Santamaria Cuadrado provincial hospital, the largest in the westernmost province of Pinar del Rio, has been benefiting for the past three years from the project to promote hospital digitalization in diagnostic imaging, which has an impact on the quality of medical care.

Two of the four Cuban collaborators who were injured last week in the province of Moxico, in Angola, are since Sunday in Luanda under the care of professionals from the Meditex clinic.

Publications in digital networks have reported in recent weeks the case of a 10-year-old Cuban boy who was treated in different health institutions in Havana, as part of the diagnosis and treatment of the diseases he suffers from.

In the context of the Convention Cuba Salud 2025, scheduled to be held on April 21 to 25, Havana will host the National Congress “Una Sola Salud” (One Health), intended to review the progress achieved by and strengthen the health-animal care-ecosystem links.

The Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) initiated today in this city their 10th High-Level Talks.

Exactly 61 personalities will receive Wednesday in Havana the Carlos J. Finlay Barre Order corresponding to 2024, the highest distinction of the Cuban government to nationals and foreigners for their contributions to the development of science for the benefit of mankind.

Sponsored by the University of Medical Sciences of the eastern province of Santiago de Cuba, the 13th International Congress of Therapeutic Hypnosis and Related Techniques Hypnosantiago 2025 opens its doors from March 25 to 29 to promote specialized scientific exchange.

More than 3,000 delegates from 50 countries will attend the international conference CUBA SALUD 2025 and its two associated fairs, scheduled to be held on April 21-25 in Havana to discuss models of comprehensive health strategies and wellness, according to Ileana Morales Suarez, director of Science, Technology and Innovation of the Ministry of Public Health.

Washington’s cuts of assistance to global health programs threaten millions of lives due to diseases like Malaria, HIV and TB, said World Health Organization (WHO) general director Tedros Adhanom.

For 25 years of uninterrupted work, the Center for Research and Rehabilitation of Hereditary Ataxias (Cirah by its Spanish acronym), located in the estern province of Holguin and the only one of its kind in Cuba, has been working to improve the quality of life of patients diagnosed with this pathology.

Cuban technological projects in the making will bring primary health care services closer to patients and make specialized medical care more efficient, according to Mayra Arevich Marín, Cuba’s Minister of Communications, who is participating in the Global Youth Summit 2025 of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), under way in Matanzas province’s Varadero seaside resort.