A master lecture entitled "Cooperation on health among southern countries, innovations in technical assistance among nations with low and average income" is on the table of the Global Forum for Health taking place Tuesday in this capital.

  Experts from Cuba and Brazil will present experiences about the issue, particularly a foreign policy of international support focused on strengthening health systems of countries that institutionally receives this benefit.

The forum was opened on Monday at the Havana Conference Center. Doctor Gill Samuels, president of her council, stated that the Cuban nation is a model on how despite financial restrictions we can achieve substantial results in public health.

"The country's favorable situation in medicine applied to people is a consequence of a clear political will of the Cuban State, expressed as a program even since before the triumph of the Revolution in 1959," the island's Public Health Minister Jose Ramon Balaguer stated.

The Forum's executive director Stephen Mathlin said that Cuba is exhibiting health statistics, like infant mortality, as good as that of those countries with more resources to invest in health.

Also on the list are key issues like "The need of innovation in developing countries," "Links between public and private sector," and "Innovating approach for the transparency of technology."

China, Kenya, Surinam, academicians and representatives of international organizations like the World Health Organization or the World Bank, members of the international pharmaceutical industry, Latin American experts and those of Canada, the United States and India are attending the five-day forum.