San Antonio de los Baños, Artemisa, Cuba - The genetic consultation of this municipality is working in collaboration with a group of specialists providing services at primary health care level.

Genetic counseling is not only for pregnant, it is for all people, for genetic diseases among adults, prenatal and young children, because some debut after 40 years, hence the importance of diagnosis or suspected such situation. They mostly work with prenatal part because of its link to the Mother and Child Programme, the importance of the arrival of a child at home, but there are women who have the genetic disease and consult the odds that the child has it or can transmit another genetic condition to their offspring.

Birth defects are the second leading cause of infant mortality in children under one year as in infants between one and four, and becomes the third, which range from that age until 15. Prevention contributes to maintain low mortality and often can be avoided.

To a pregnant woman is performed hemoglobin electrophoresis to detect early whether they are carriers of sickle cell anemia (sickle cell). The screening of the MSAFP is between 15 and 19 weeks of pregnancy, and prenatal cytogenetic diagnosis is made in pregnant at risk including elderly. For people with genetic diseases have advice for all life. To this consults must be submitted every individual, regardless of age, intellectual disability, hearing, motor, visual or family status or undetermined cause; visible birth defects, infertility or repeated reproductive failure. The most important mission for community genetic is the identification of the individual and family risk for preventive purposes.