After concluding the academic year corresponding to the 2018-2023 five-year period, and in accordance with the statutes that govern the operation of the Academy of Sciences of Cuba (ACC), four health professionals from the province of Holguín became new full members or young associates of this institution.
Holguín closed 2023 with the third lowest infant mortality rate in the country, achieving 4.7 per thousand live births, according to preliminary data.
For the first time in Cuba and successfully, Heberprot-P, a national growth factor, was applied to a pediatric patient prior to a skin transplant in the central province of Sancti Spíritus.
Of the almost hundred works included in the investment and maintenance plan of the Health sector in 2023, 57 have already been completed, 13 are about to be concluded by the end of December and 24 will continue in 2024.
This year’s celebration of the World HIV Response Day on December 1, is calling for urgent support to Let Communities Lead in the fight to end AIDS.