Cuba’s🇨🇺 achievements in healthcare despite the illegal US embargo:
• Cuba has of the highest doctor-to-population ratios in the world, with roughly 8 doctors per 1,000 people, several times the global average.
• First country in the world to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis (WHO validated, 2015). Cuba reduced HIV transmission from mother to child below 2%, with only 2 babies born with HIV and 3 with congenital syphilis in 2013.
• Medical internationalism: More than 600,000 Cuban healthcare professionals have served in over 160 countries since the 1960s, responding to disasters, epidemics, and healthcare shortages.
• Developed the world’s first effective vaccine against meningococcal B meningitis. Cuba’s VA-MENGOC-BC vaccine was introduced in 1989, tackling a disease that had caused major outbreaks.
• Created Heberprot-P, a treatment for diabetic foot ulcers that has reportedly reduced the need for amputations in many patients and has been used in dozens of countries.
• Built a biotechnology sector from scratch despite decades of illegal unilateral sanctions. Cuba now produces the majority of its own vaccines and exports medical products internationally.
• Developed multiple COVID-19 vaccines, including Abdala and Soberana, becoming one of the few countries in the Global South to create and manufacture its own COVID vaccines.
• Infant mortality is comparable to many developed countries, despite Cuba’s much lower GDP per capita. Cuba’s infant mortality rate has often been lower than that of the USA.
• Near-universal vaccination coverage, with childhood vaccination rates consistently above 95% for many major diseases.
• Universal healthcare coverage, providing free access to primary care, specialist care, hospitalisation, and preventive medicine nationwide.
These are reasons Trump and Rubio want to destroy Cuba; because Cuba didn’t only dare to resist the suffocating US embargo, but also showed the world that it could triumph with an alternative model of development.
Über 100 Milliarden Euro hat der Ukraine-Krieg den deutschen Steuerzahler bereits gekostet. Allein in diesem Jahr gehen weitere elf Milliarden an Waffenhilfe nach Kiew. Obendrauf kommt das 90-Milliarden-Geschenk der EU, das zu einem großen Teil vom deutschen Steuerzahler finanziert wird. Als wäre das nicht genug, fordert CDU-Politiker Norbert Röttgen noch mehr Geld für die Ukraine. Wie verrückt kann man sein? Nein, es braucht keine weiteren deutschen Steuermilliarden für die korrupte Selenskyj-Regierung in Kiew! Es braucht endlich eine diplomatische Initiative der Bundesregierung, um diesen sinnlosen Krieg zu beenden. Merz und die CDU machen Politik gegen das eigene Volk und gehören dringend abgewählt!
Israeli occupation forces abducted Dr. Mahmoud Talal Al Najjar, while leaving the Gaza Strip via Rafah Crossing.
He was taken to an unknown location, and no information about his fate has been made available. He was expected at the University of Tor Vergata after obtaining approval to continue his university studies.
This morning in Palestine, Israel took four Palestinian female students hostage during a raid on the town of Birzeit in Ramallah.
The four female are students at the renowned Birzeit University. Three of them were kidnapped from their homes
Election campaign ad in Israel: "we turned Gaza back to the stone age," followed by a counter of how many people the candidate murdered.
This ad is from 2019, bragging about the destruction of Gaza 9 years before October 7.
The candidate is opposition leader Benny Gantz.
@qudsn في #غزة الحشرات و القوارض تنهش الأجساد، الجوع يطحن العظام والقصف يمحو أحياء كاملة. وفي المقابل، نحن منشغلون بـترند فنان هابط أو تحليل مباراة كرة قدم،
عذرا غزة، فنحن أمة لا تستيقظ إلا لتنام ،
أمة فقدت حاسة الشرف، ولم يتبق لها سوى حاسة التصفيق للتفاهة والطعن في الظهر
They locked him inside a wooden coffin for 12 days. Former Palestinian hostage Imad Nabhan describes how the Israeli occupation army sealed him inside a wooden coffin with an iron cage door, bound hand and foot in total darkness, kept alive on quarter cups of cocoa and broth fed through a small tube in one of three tiny holes.
Nabhan had been kidnapped from al-Rafi'i school in Gaza as civilians were heading to a shelter. Soldiers demanded he serve as an informant, enter Hamas tunnels on their behalf, and ride on their tanks. When he refused, they tortured him with electricity. When that failed to break him, they dragged him blindfolded into the coffin. He says the soldiers knew he had no information to give but wanted to inflict as much suffering as possible. "In that moment, you wish for death but you can't find it," he says. After his release, he suffered three to four seizures a day and went five to six days without any medical treatment.
@TRTArabi
A heartbreaking testimony from a school teacher in South Lebanon about her student, Hassan, murdered by terrorist Israel in the southern Lebanese town of Arab Salim:
"In my classroom, there were two boys who shared the same name: Hassan Farhat.
I used to distinguish between them by their fathers' names.
Then the father of the first Hassan was martyred…
And suddenly, his father's name became a wound. I became afraid to call him by it, afraid of reopening the ache of orphanhood in his heart every single morning.
Today, something even more horrifying than the mind can bear happened…
The Zionists killed the father of the second Hassan as well.
And Hassan himself was martyred alongside his parents.
Little Hassan.
The quiet child who would leave his games to pray.
A memorizer of the holy Qur'an.
Gentle, dignified, and deeply well-mannered.
The boy who could barely carry his schoolbag… is now being carried to his grave.
In my classroom now,
there is one Hassan who is an orphan,
and another Hassan who is a martyr.
What kind of crime is capable of killing the same name twice?
What kind of savagery turns children into either bodies beneath the earth… or children waiting for their turn to grieve?
Farewell, Hassan…
Farewell, child of the South." 💔
~Words of Alaa Younis, a school teacher in South Lebanon, mourning her student Hassan, who was killed by terrorist Israel in the southern Lebanese town of Arab Salim.
في ذكرى اغتيال الصحفي حسن اصليح، لا نستعيد اسمه كخبر عابر، ولكن كأثرٍ تركه رجل عاش للناس أكثر مما عاش لنفسه.
كان يشبه غزة كثيرًا، هادئًا من الخارج، وممتلئًا بالوجع والكرامة من الداخل. يحمل الكاميرا كأنها أمانة، ويمشي بين الموتى والناجين بقلبٍ لا يتعب من الانحياز للحقيقة.
رحل حسن،لكن صورته ما زالت عالقة في ذاكرة الحرب، وصوته ما زا�� حاضرًا في كل مشهد حاول العالم ألّا يراه.
الصحفي الذي أخذ من اسمه كل النصيب… ترك خلفه سيرةً يصعب على الغياب أ�� يُطفئها
يقول هذا الناشط الإيرلندي أنه لو لم يكن هناك أي قيمة لأسطول الصمود إلا إشغال البحرية الإسرائيلية ليومين أو ثلاثة، حتى يصطاد أهل غزة من البحر دون عوائق، لكفانا هذا…!
Israel killed Maryam today in Saksakiyeh, South Lebanon.
She was only 2 years old.
They killed her mother too — Jana, 24 years old.
A baby and her mother.
This is what Israel’s bombs do.
This is who they kill.