[NYTr] Cuban Diagnosiric Technology Spreads in the World
 
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 16:07:59 -0500 (CDT)


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Cuban Diagnosis Technology in other Countries

Havana, Sept 6 (acn) Cuban diagnosis technology trademarked SUMA, used 
in the detection of congenital malformations are currently being used 
in 578 labs in several countries of the world.

Eleven such equipment are operating in China, while the rest are being 
used in Latin America, mainly in Venezuela, Mexico, Colombia and 
Argentina.

Over 51 million diagnostic tests have been carried out in Cuba over the 
past 25 years through different national health programs by using the 
SUMA equipment.

Every pregnant women is submitted to tests in order to detect any 
possible congenital malformation, Hepatitis B and HIV/AIDS; therefore 
HIV/AIDS-carrying mothers may have healthy children after measures are 
taken to prevent the transmission of the disease to the child.

A local blood certification program has prevented the transmission of 
at least 882 HIV-AIDS cases, 31,381 Hepatitis B  and 26,967 Hepatitis C 
cases.

The Havana-based immunological research center, founded two decades ago 
and creator of SUMA, is currently developing equipment, diagnosis means 
and software programs for the detection of different diseases. 
 
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