Cuban women have historically been active participants in movements to promote health and wellbeing, from their involvement in Public Health work during the U.S. Occupation, participation in charitable societies during the Republican Period, and in Sanitary Brigades organized shortly after the Revolution. 

Since 2018, a movement of informal community health workers has emerged from outside formal spaces of political participation. Today new mothers use social media to access evidence-based information and provide peer-to-peer support for pregnancy, birth, and breastfeeding to make up for gaps in State care infrastructures. Virtual communites on WhatsApp, Telegram and Facebook  strongly value mothers’ embodied knowledge and represent an epistemological challenge to the authoritative knowledge of Cuban biomedicine. 

News article written in Cuban media about our Virtual Support Group Calls: Madres cubanas defienden amamantar más allá de las dificultades - IPS Cuba 

News article about our Third Anniversary event: Liga de la Leche mantiene apoyo a la lactancia materna en Cuba - IPS Cuba June 14, 2022.