Over the past five years, the incidence of viral hepatitis has decreased in Cuba, with about 70 cases of hepatitis B and 200 of hepatitis C per year, so they are not a health problem and work is being done in line with the initiative of the World Health Organization (WHO) to eliminate them by 2030.
Cuba reported 92 new cases of COVID 19, 122 discharged and no deaths
Cuba studied a total of 2,405 samples for surveillance, resulting positive 92 for 3.8% of positivity. The country accumulates 14,027,654 samples taken and 1,107,800 positive (7.9%).
Over 9 million Cubans have completed the anti-COVID 19 vaccination scheme
The Cuban ministry of public health ( MINSAP by its Spanish acronym) reported today that 9,977,655 people have completed the anti-COVID-19 vaccination program, with the immunogens developed in the country, Soberana 02, Soberana Plus and Abdala.
This figure represents 90.1 % of the Cuban population, according to the agency's daily report published on its website.
Uncontrolled weight loss can lead to health problems
Summer is here and there are many people, especially women, who want to show off a flat stomach and a body with adequate proportions on the beach; and it is not that it is reprehensible to raise self-esteem in this way, but it is worth warning that diets to lose weight abruptly can lead to health problems.
Cuba has done a lot for us, say newly graduated foreign doctors
Eydnilsa de Almeida, from Sao Tome and Principe, became a doctor this Friday, which she thanks to Fidel Castro and Cuba, a country that did a lot for her and other foreign students, by welcoming them and preparing them as medical professionals, a career not instituted in the African island.
Non-transmissible Diseases, Priority of Cuban Health System
The Cuban Health system reinforces actions to prevent and treat diseases considered as threats to life, after two years of struggle against COVID-19 and when the epidemiological situation here is under control.
Díaz-Canel highlights reception of Cuban vaccine in the United States
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel highlighted on Twitter that Cimavax-EGF, the Cuban therapeutic vaccine against lung cancer, is making its way into the United States thanks to the current cooperation between the Cuban Center for Molecular Immunology (CIM) and the Roswell Park Cancer Research Center in that country.
Cuban Parliamentarians Assess the Country Epidemiological Scenario
Cuban Health Minister Jose Angel Portal Miranda urged the people and state agencies to contribute to keeping the COVID-19 pandemic under control and prevent Dengue Fever from becoming an epidemic in the coming months.
COVID-19 in Cuba: 75 new cases yesterday
Cuba reported today 75 new COVID-19 cases, 77 hospital discharges and no fatalities.
US Blockade Sensitively Impacts Drug Production in Cuba
SOME 142 medications out of 369 contributed by BioCubaFarma pharmaceutical conglomerate to the island’s basic drug portfolio were not available during the first half of 2022 due to difficulties in purchasing raw materials and bottles, complex international logistics conditions and the country’s financial situation, worsened by the US economic blockade.
Cuba reported 51 new cases of COVID-19, 56 discharges and no deaths
Cuban authorities highlight results of national vaccine against pneumococcal disease
Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Cuban communist party and president of the country, highlighted today on Twitter the results of the multivalent vaccine against pneumococcus.
Dengue Fever Poses Risk on Cuban Population
Three serotypes of Dengue Fever out of four present in Latin America and the Caribbean, are in Cuba which increases the risk to get the disease, said deputy health minister Carilda Peña García.
Cuba reported 64 new cases of COVID 19, 42 discharged and no deaths
Cuba carried out a total of 2,223 samples for surveillance, 64 were positive. The country accumulates 13,995,779 samples carried out and 1,106,666 positive.
Cuban FM highlights achievements of the country in controlling COVID-19
For 64 consecutive days, no deaths have been reported in Cuba due to the COVID-19, Cuban foreign minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla highlighted today on Twitter, as an achievement of the Caribbean nation in the control of the disease.