Experts of the Pan-American and World Health organizations praised the results of the program of eastern Santiago de Cuba province to prevent and eliminate the mother-child transmission of HIV/AIDS and syphilis.

Theodor Friedrich, representative of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), asserted on Tuesday in this city that in Cuba there's political willingness to boost productive practices without degrading soils.

Cuba's Deputy Health Minister, Doctor Marcia Cobas, announced that 28 ministers have already confirmed their attendance to the International Health Convention that will be held in this capital on April 20-24.

The draft of landscape approach to conservation in Cuba of mountain ecosystems contributes to the preservation of the environment and sustainable development, said today in this city Myrta Kaulard, representative of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).

Nearly half a million Cuban children will be immunized at the 54th National Anti- Polio Vaccination Campaign, which first phase will take place from March 9 to 15, Dr. Miguel Angel Galindo, an official of the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP by its Spanish acronym), announced.

More than 260 Pakistani physicians will graduate on Friday in this city, Muhammad Rashid Usman, representative of the doctors-to-be at the University of Medical Sciences of Sancti Spiritus, told ACN.

Since its founding on February 26, 1989, by Commander in Chief Fidel Castro, Havana's International Center for Neurological Restoration (CIREN) has received 120,000 patients of 93 countries, including Cuba.

The signing of more than twenty interuniversity cooperation agreements in just two exchanging days was the result of the 13th Cuba-Mexico Meeting of Rectors which concluded here yesterday.

The Cuban medical brigade working in Sierra Leone has cured, since October, 260 persons infected by the Ebola fever virus.

The Cuban Institute of Meteorology reported that early Friday morning it registered a record one Celsius degree in the town of Union Reyes, in western Matanzas province, the lowest temperature ever recorded in Cuba for the month of February.

Discussions of the First National Workshop on Computerization and Cybersecurity, headquartered in Havana, are resumed today at the Research Center of Integrated Technologies (CITI by its Spanish acronym), at Jose Antonio Echeverria Higher Polytechnic Institute.

Despite the five-decade confrontation between Cuba and the United States, both countries have maintained permanent bilateral collaboration in the field of meteorology.

After three days of lectures and discussions on the role of tourism as a development factor in heritage sites, the 9th International Symposium Challenges in the Management of Cities, which was held since Monday in this city, concludes today.

At least 322 invasive plant species have been reported in Cuba, and 58 percent of them are considered transformer of the composition and structure of native ecosystems, it was reported in this capital.