• Submitted by: Luis Manuel Mazorra
• Health and Medicine
• 03 / 16 / 2012

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One of the issues addressed at the Third Latin American Congress of Family Medicine and the X International Seminar on Primary Health Care (PHC) is the relevance and significance is the work of family doctors in Cuba.

Also delve into ways of preventing STIs HIV / AIDS through this type of care, as well as taught lectures on the roles of research and innovations in primary health services.

Based in the Convention Palace of Havana, the forum brings together delegates from 20 countries who exchange knowledge related yesterday the clinical and epidemiological method in the practice of primary care, the study of health in that region, and human resources training.

Liliana Arias Castillo, president of the organizing committee, told the meeting that becomes an ideal place for specialists from all over the Iberian region can share their experiences and apply what they learned in their health systems.

Almost all participants have requested to visit clinics, polyclinics and hospitals Cubans to verify the progress of the island in medicine in general, that experience would be the most important added value of an event like this, he said.

Virtual modes will also continue the conference by Health Network Infomed Cuba, in order that it may involve a greater number of national professionals.