Cuban women celebrate March 8 International Women´ Day with important achievement and promising realities, which prove that discrimination and gender gaps may be overcome in today´s world.

IN Cuba women enjoy an over-80-year expectancy of life, one of the lowest maternal mortality rate and constitute 48 percent of the civil labor, just to mention some of the Cuban women´s achievements in terms of empowerment and vindication of their rights.

The third imported case in Cuba of a patient with Zika virus has been confirmed, corresponding to a Cuban voluntary worker, a 43 year-old Laboratory Technician who arrived in the country from Venezuela (Merida) on March 1 st, 2016, and lives in the municipality Florida, eastern Camagüey province, informed a note issued by the Public Health Ministry.

That same day he had a headache and the next day a rash in the thorax region. He was admitted on March 2 at the Amalia Simoni Hospital of the city of Camagüey.