[Cuban advisory work to face the rise of malarial cases in two Haitian departments in April 2010].

Introduction: malaria is considered to be a serious health problem in Haiti, mainly in the rural zones of the coastal area located at 600 m above the sea level, particularly shallow zones with rice crops.

Objective: to describe the actions taken in four sites of two Haitian departments to face the rise of the number of malarial cases.

Methods: the advisory work was carried out in three communities located in the West department and one in Nippes department in April 2010.

[Importance of medical education in the diagnosis of toxoplasmosis in Cuba].

The results of the National Toxoplasmosis Reference Laboratory during 1999 and 2000 were processed and the evaluations on this topic were simultaneously analyzed among 51 professionals that attended the First National Workshop held at "Pedro Kouri" Institute of Tropical Medicine at that time. Of 3 672 orders, 3 171 (86.3%) did not have the reason for serology, 36.