INTRODUCTION COVID-19 is caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and was declared a pandemic on March 11, 2020, same day that first cases in Cuba were diagnosed. In Cuba, all confirmed of hospitalized from this point forward.

Very recent attitudes and public policy have promoted acceptance health equity for LGBT people in Cuba. Based on unstructured conversations observations with physicians, researchers, community workers Cuba, current priorities include HIV/AIDs prevention treatment, mental physical health, aging-related issues.

This article describes the background, beginnings, development, evolution and outcomes of kidney transplantation in Cuba. Nephrology as a medical specialty in Cuba began in 1962 and was formalized in 1966. Conditions were created to implement renal replacement therapy (including transplants), bring nephrology care to the entire country and train human resources who would assume this responsibil...

It is widely recognized that Cuba, despite poor economic performance, has achieved and sustained health indices comparable to those in developed countries--the Cuban Paradox. There has been, however, remarkably little scholarship evaluating how this has been accomplished, especially during a period of extreme economic hardship. Cuba's exclusion from the mainstream of "globalization," moreover, ...

El Teatro Bufo es un género de estilo mixto, satírico y mu-sical emparentado con la zarzuela, el sainete, parodia apropósito. Se desarrolló en Cuba durante segunda mitad del siglo XIX cons-tituyen capítulo muy personal vertiente costumbrista cul-tura cubana. En Universidad Central «Marta Abreu» Las Villas (Cuba) se encuentra una las colecciones libros raros valiosos más importantes Cuba: Colecc...

The genetic diversity of HBV in human population is often a reflection of its genetic admixture. The aim of this study was to explore the genotypic diversity of HBV in Cuba. The S genomic region of Cuban HBV isolates was sequenced and for selected isolates the complete genome or precore-core sequence was analyzed. The most frequent genotype was A (167/250, 67%), mainly A2 (149, 60%) but also A1...