(1) Departamento de Informática. Universidad de Matanzas (Cuba) Autopista de Varadero km 3. Matanzas. Cuba. [email protected] (2) Departamento de Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos. Universidad de Alicante C/ San Vicente S/N 03690 Alicante (España) [email protected] (3) Grupo ALARCOS, Departamento de Tecnologías y Sistemas de Información Centro Mixto de Investigación y Desarrollo de Softwa...

The year 2005 was a watershed for disaster management worldwide and also in Cuba. Representatives of every continent met in Japan, hammering out the Hyogo Framework for Action (2005-2015), an international blueprint for risk reduction strategies and a guide for developing national platforms. In Cuba, a spate of devastating hurricanes the year before led to a reassessment of how the country was ...

n Address correspondence to: Roberto Cañete Villafranca, MD, PhD, MS, Council of Scientific Societies of Health, University of Medical Sciences and Center of Hygiene, Epidemiology, and Microbiology, Calle Milanés esquina a Buena Vista, Cuba is the largest island of the Caribbean and presents—in many aspects—a challenge for visitors from all over the world. Internet access is very limited, credi...

Computational biology can be considered a supradisciplinary field of knowledge that merges biology, chemistry, physics, and computer science into a broad-based science that is important to furthering our understanding of the life sciences. Although a relatively new area of research, it is recognized as a crucial field for scientific advancement in developing countries. This Perspective introduc...

INTRODUCTION Systematic surveillance of antituberculosis drug resistance allows identification of multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Surveillance studies of antituberculosis drug resistance systematically conducted in Cuba for over 15 years have revealed low circulation of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, under 1% in new cases. OBJECTIVE ...

To determine breast-feeding trends in the Region of the Americas and compare them with those observed in Cuba in the last decade, information was complied from a select group of national surveys conducted in the 1970s on the prevalence and duration of breast-feeding and then compared with information from a survey carried out in Cuba in 1973. In addition, data were taken from document HPN/92.7 ...

In Cuba, alcohol is an important contributor to morbidity, mortality and social problems. The foundation of Cuba's universal primary health care coverage, family doctor-and-nurse offices play a critical role in prevention, early detection and treatment of alcohol abuse. Los Palacios Municipality of the westernmost province of Pinar del Río, Cuba, is a socially complex, periurban area where alco...

Medical journals and other sources do not show evidence that cholera occurred in Haiti before 2010, despite the devastating effect of this disease in the Caribbean region in the 19th century. Cholera occurred in Cuba in 1833-1834; in Jamaica, Cuba, Puerto Rico, St. Thomas, St. Lucia, St. Kitts, Nevis, Trinidad, the Bahamas, St. Vincent, Granada, Anguilla, St. John, Tortola, the Turks and Caicos...

The presence of infection by human T cell lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) in Cuba has been previously documented. However, genetic information on the strains that circulate in the Cuban people remains unknown. The present work constitutes the first study of phylogenetic relationship of HTLV-1 Cuban isolates. Twelve Cuban patients who were diagnosed with HTLV-1 infection and had different cli...

El presente artículo tiene como objetivo explorar el desarrollo de las relaciones diplomáticas entre gobierno revolucionario cubano y facto argentino 1976 1983. La mayoría los trabajos que han abordado exteriores la revolución cubana durante periodo guerra fría centrado su atención en análisis del diferendo Estados Unidos-Cuba, o vínculos Cuba-URSS Cuba-África, circunscribiendo país caribeño a ...