HEALTH

Cuba, U.S. Sign Agreement for Cancer Research

The agreement, signed by Dr. Ro­berto Morales Ojeda, Cuban minister of Public Health, and Sylvia Burwell, U.S. secretary of Health and Human Services, is aimed at implementing collaboration projects»

Sancti Spiritus Women Denounce US Blockade against Cuba

Members of the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) in Sancti Spiritus mobilized this Sunday all over the province to denounce the damages caused by the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the U.S.A., and the real background of this government’s recent policy towards the island. Belkis Diaz Jimenez, general secretary of the organization in this territory, told Escambray that »

Cuban Infant Mortality Rate: Sancti Spiritus “Miracle”

When only one year ago Sancti Spiritus province closed 2011 with one of the highest infant mortality rates in Cuba, 5.9 deaths per thousand live births, not even local authorities in charge of reversing this situation could have calculated that twelve months later the territory would halve that figure and become a reference for the entire nation.»