Category Archives: Healthcare

Havana, September 19 (Prensa Latina) Twenty-one years ago, Cuba established the Henry Reeve International Contingent of Doctors Specialized in Disaster Situations and Serious Epidemics, an initiative of Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro that continues to save lives in numerous corners of the … Continue reading →

Havana, September 7 (Prensa Latina) The director of the Juan Manuel Márquez Pediatric Hospital, Araiz Consuegra, assured that the staff of the Havana institution will not cease their work despite the damage caused by the United States blockade against Cuba. … Continue reading →

Havana is developing accessible therapeutic options for the population, given the high prices of cancer treatments globally and the economic war waged by the White House. August 25, 2026 — teleSUR The Center for Molecular Immunology (CIM) in Cuba is conducting studies for a new … Continue reading →

Bogotá, Aug 17 (Prensa Latina) While attending to dozens of patients in Cali, one of the cities hardest hit by a deadly earthquake, Colombian doctor Diana Hernández recounts how the importance that Cuba gives to life was engraved in her … Continue reading →

By Antonio Rondón — Prensa Latina Referring to recent unilateral measures against Cuban medical collaboration, the president of France-Cuba, Fabrice Leclerc, told Prensa Latina that it was always part of the propaganda to damage the image of Cuba by US … Continue reading →

Rome, July 18 (Prensa Latina) Cuban medical collaboration in the Italian region of Calabria is fundamental to maintaining health care, and will continue despite actions by the United States against it, a report indicates today. The US government, particularly the … Continue reading →

Guatemala City, July 14 (Prensa Latina) The saddest thing was saying goodbye to my colleagues in the department of Suchitepéquez, said doctor Edis Miguel Martínez, who is returning to Cuba today after completing his collaboration in Guatemala. I completed five … Continue reading →

Havana, June 10 (Prensa Latina) The intensified economic blockade that the United States maintains against Cuba today caused economic losses exceeding 288 million dollars to the public health sector between March 2024 and February 2025. That figure is part of … Continue reading →

May 15, 2026 — Belly of he Beast From the development of five COVID-19 vaccines to the world’s first meningitis B vaccine and an innovative lung cancer treatment, Cuba’s biotech industry has long punched above its weight. But no achievement may be as significant as NeuroEPO, … Continue reading →