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US government calls conference on hunger, nutrition and health

Published on: August 29, 2022
18:21

Washington, Aug 29 (Prensa Latina) The Biden-Harris Administration will host the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health in Americans on coming September 28, 2022 in Washington, D.C. as the president announced in May, this will be the first Conference of this kind in over 50 years.

Afghanistan gripped by multiple disease outbreaks, WHO warns

Published on: August 10, 2022
19:02

Kabul, Aug 10 (Prensa Latina) The World Health Organization (WHO) warned that Afghanistan is facing up multiple disease outbreaks, including Acute Watery Diarrhea (AWD), measles, Congo fever, dengue fever and the Covid-19 pandemic.

Afghanistan: Disease cases on the rise

Published on: July 17, 2022
11:15

Kabul, Jul 17 (Prensa Latina) Seasonal infectious disease cases have increased in the last three weeks in Afghanistan, while physicians asked families to take more precautions to prevent infections such as cholera, diarrhea, flu, malaria and measles, according to Mohammad Naeem Akbari, physician at the Kabul Hospital for Infectious Diseases.

Over 3.5 billion people suffer from oral diseases – WHO

Published on: June 21, 2022
16:00

Geneva, Jun 21 (Prensa Latina) Over 3.5 billion people worldwide suffer from untreated oral diseases, without situation improving in last 30 years, said an official source.

Uruguayan physician highlights Cuban ophthalmological collaboration

Published on: June 5, 2022
14:30

Montevideo, Jun 5 (Prensa Latina) On Sunday, the deputy director of the Jose Marti Ophthalmological Hospital in Uruguay, Ana Fagundez, has latent memories of her years of medical training in Cuba, where she graduated in September 2005.

WHO calls on prioritization of monitoring SARS-CoV-2 in wildlife

Published on: March 7, 2022
14:43

Geneva, Mar 7 (Prensa Latina) The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday has called on the prioritization of monitoring SARS-CoV-2 infection in wildlife, in order to prevent the formation of animal reservoirs.

Cuba is helping vaccinate the world, Indian publication reported

Published on: February 7, 2022
14:08

New Delhi, Feb 7 (Prensa Latina) Under the title "Cuba is helping vaccinate the world", the Indian portal Peoples Dispatch highlighted the shipment of vaccines from Cuba to countries such as Syria, hard hit by a decade of war and sanctions by the United States.

Cuba applies nuclear method against mosquito that causes dengue fever

Published on: January 26, 2022
00:30

Havana, Jan 26 (Prensa Latina) Cuba is making progress in the development of a nuclear method to reduce populations of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which transmit diseases such as dengue fever and Zika, it was reported.

Haiti: Over half million children at risk of waterborne diseases

Published on: September 3, 2021
07:31

United Nations, Sep 3 (Prensa Latina) Around 540,000 children in the southwest of earthquake-stricken Haiti are now facing the possible re-emergence of waterborne diseases such as cholera and diarrhea, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned Friday.

Cuba guarantees immunization of its entire people

Published on: August 12, 2021
11:43

Havana, Aug 12 (Prensa Latina) Since early this year, Cuban scientific and health authorities assured that the necessary efforts would be made in the country to immunize the entire population against Covid-19, a palpable reality today.

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