The 4th Convention and 3rd Expofair of the University of Las Tunas, to be held on May 16 to 19 in this eastern Cuban province, is intended to promote exchanges among professionals from several countries who will share their scientific and technical experiences with a view to development and social welfare based on the training of professionals and the impact of Cuban universities on the country’s current social processes.

The main results of cancer research in Cuba were presented today in the province of Holguin(eastern Cuba), on the occasion of the workshop dedicated to this disease.

Cuban Prime Minister attended Monday the annual report meeting of the Health Ministry which considered the sector’s performance in 2022, a year which brough important challenges, along with projections for this year.

Julien Morejón Almeida, who joined the Red Cross in the province of Artemisa some 20 years ago after graduating as a lifeguard and is now head of relief operations, is proud to celebrate the organization’s World Day today.

So far Cuba has no reports of the new variant of the Omicron xbb.1.16 coronavirus (also called Arcturus), which is already circulating in more than 30 countries, with most cases in India, said Francisco Duran Garcia, national director of epidemiology of the Cuban public health ministry.

José Angel Portal Miranda, Cuba's Minister of Public Health, and Alena Douhan, UN Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council on the negative impact of the unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights, met Wednesday to discuss the impact of the U.S. blockade on Cuba’s health care system.

The recovery week of the second stage of the 62nd National Oral Polio Vaccination Campaign begins today throughout Cuba, and will last until May 6.

With the arrival in Cuba of some quantities of financed supplies, and other efforts, drugs in high demand by the population are now in production, confirmed Rita Maria Garcia, director of Operations and Technology of the Biocubafarma Business Group.

The Cuban product HeberFERON, developed by the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB by its Spanish acronym), has shown encouraging results in the treatment of patients with diffuse, poor prognosis or progressive brain tumors, said a specialized source in Havana.

Zeljka Cvijanovic, President of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Cuban Health Minister Jose Angel Portal exchanged views on Tuesday about bilateral cooperation.

Türkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan granted the Presidential Medal and Distinguished Humanitarian Service Order to Cuba’s Henry Reeve Medical Brigade, whose doctors assisted the Turkish people affected by last month’s earthquakes.

Eight years after the approval of the Cuban vaccine HeberNasvac, to treat chronic patients infected with hepatitis B virus, the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB by its Spanish acronym) continues its research with the immunogen in Japan and Bangladesh, where it has obtained encouraging results.

In Cuba, psychology is made for the people, hence it has always had the vocation to be in the front row, saying, doing, writing, said Jorge Enrique Torralbas Osle, president of the Cuban Society of Psychology (SCP by its Spanish acronym), in Havana.

The Vaccination Week in the Americas, which takes place April 22-29, aims to generate high levels of demand and acceptance of vaccines to protect the population, and in Cuba coincides with the second stage of the 62nd National Oral Polio Vaccination Campaign, to support the goal of eradicating that disease in the world.