Cuba exhibits at UN headquarters advances in science, technology and innovation

Under the name “The strength of a developing country”, an exhibition of posters at the headquarters of the United Nations shows Cuba's progress in science, technology and innovation.

The permanent representative of the Caribbean island nation to the international organization based in New York, Ernesto Soberon, highlighted the opening of the exhibition on Monday, during which he gave the opening speech.

According to Prensa Latina, the Cuban diplomat said that this method of government management constitutes an important strength to generate creative solutions to the problems faced by Cuba as a result of the blockade imposed by the United States.

The exhibition covers some of the most notable Cuban achievements, such as the development of its own vaccines against COVID-19 or the literacy method Yo Sí Puedo, which helped more than 10 million people in some 30 countries to learn to read and write.

It presents the health professionals who have provided health care in 165 countries in the last six decades in medical collaboration programs, and the specialists (more than 31,000) who were trained at the Latin American School of Medicine, located in the outskirts of the Cuban capital.

The exhibition also shows that Cuba was the first country in the world to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV-AIDS.

Soberon stressed the importance of advances in science, technology and innovation for the nations of the South in the search for alternative solutions to the lack of resources, infrastructure and funding they need to advance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).