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Medical condition Havana syndrome Other names Anomalous health incidents Unexplained health incidents Unexplained health incidents Unidentified health incidents The Hotel Nacional in Havana is one of the locations where the syndrome has reportedly been experienced. Causes Not determined [6] Named after Havana (Capital City of Cuba) Havana syndrome, also known as Anomalous Health Incidents ...
WHO health statistics for Cuba Source: WHO country page on Cuba; Life expectancy at birth m/f: 77/81 (years, 2016) Healthy life expectancy at birth m/f: 67.1/69.5 (years) Child mortality m/f: 5 (per 1000 live births, 2018) Adult mortality m/f: 116/68 (per 1000 population, 2016) Total health expenditure per capita: 2475 (Intl $, 2014)
The Cuban government operates a national health system and assumes fiscal and administrative responsibility for the health care of all its citizens. [1] All healthcare in Cuba is free to Cuban residents, [2] although challenges include low salaries for doctors, poor facilities, poor provision of equipment, and the frequent absence of essential drugs.
It became the National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention in 1996. [21] The National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases was spun off from the Center for Prevention Services in 1993 as the National Immunization Program. [22] It gained its current name in 2006 as part of the Futures Initiative. [19] [23]
Cuba’s crisis is the result of the internal blockade enforced by the Cuban government on the Cuban people. Cuban American scholar Dr. Amalia Daché has said that “…lifting the embargo would ...
Human infectious diseases may be characterized by their case fatality rate (CFR), the proportion of people diagnosed with a disease who die from it (cf. mortality rate).It should not be confused with the infection fatality rate (IFR), the estimated proportion of people infected by a disease-causing agent, including asymptomatic and undiagnosed infections, who die from the disease.
A ground crew member directs the loading of a shipment of Cuba's homegrown COVID-19 vaccines donated to Syria, on the tarmac of the Jose Marti International Airport, in Havana, on Jan. 7, 2022.
Based on 2009 data, about 1.0 percent of the adult population (240,000 people) is living with the disease, which is higher than any other region except Sub-Saharan Africa. [2] Several factors influence this epidemic, including poverty, gender, sex tourism, and stigma. HIV incidence in the Caribbean declined 49% between 2001 and 2012. [3]