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.

Gaston Browne, Antigua and Barbuda's Prime Minister, highlighted the importance of Cuba's cooperation in the health system of his country and the entire Caribbean.

An annual average of 450 children and adolescents face cancer disease in Cuba, a global health problem and a priority for the health system and the State, with a comprehensive program for its control and a national health care strategy.

Samira Addrey, member of the board of the U.S. organization IFCO-Pastors for Peace, stressed that Cuba's collaboration with the world in the field of health care is a feat and a bastion of hope for many people which should be highlighted in these times marked by the aggressiveness against the island.

More than 6,500 kidney transplants have been performed in Cuba, with an 80 % survival rate, since this first successful procedure was carried out in the country on February 24, 1970, an effective tool to improve the quality of life of patients with chronic kidney disease, Yamile Garcia Aguilera, director of the National Institute of Nephrology, said .

Specialists of the pediatric hospital Octavio de la Concepcion y de la Pedraja in the province of Holguin apply a novel surgical procedure for the treatment of traumatic cataract through pupilloplasty.

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheimbaum said on Tuesday that his country is opening doors to doctors from Cuba and other nations to occupy vacancies while training its own medical specialists.

Cuban health experts get ready to introduce, for the first time in the country, a vaccine against the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV).

Cuban Ambassador to Bolivia, Elba Rosa Perez, expressed optimism about a collaboration agreement between the two countries in nuclear medicine, which will be signed Monday in Havana.

In a post on X, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel congratulated Cuban women scientists on the International Day of Women and Girls in Science―with Building a future for women in science” as this year’s theme―and praised their commitment and talent, describing it as an example to girls.

The Medical University in the Cuban central province of Sancti Spiritus graduated 625 new health professionals, which takes the number of graduates at the local institution to some 19 thousand, including over 1.200 from other nations.

A donation by Japanese activists, which included power generators, rechargeable led lamps, medications and toys was handed over to three Havana healthcare institutions.