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Cuban Medical Brigade: Statement in the Gambia in support of global actions against the US blockade of Cuba
The Cuban Medical Brigade (CMB) in The Gambia supports and sympathizes with all those countries that in one way or another will be the scene on March 27th and 28th of actions against the cruel blockade that the US maintains on Cuba. They will be carried out in the form of caravans, public events and Continue reading
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70 percent of Cubans will be vaccinated against Covid19 in the summer
Havana, Mar 24 (Prensa Latina) 70 percent of Cubans will be immunized against SARS-Cov-2 between July and August, in a staggered vaccination strategy, which today involves different population groups between 19 and 80 years old. The first step constitutes the two phase III clinical trials that are being carried out with Soberana 02 and Abdala, Continue reading
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China and Cuba develop vaccine against various strains of SARS-CoV-2 that cause Covid19
Beijing, Mar 21 (Prensa Latina) China and Cuba are working on obtaining a vaccine, called Pan-Corona, that is effective against different strains of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and prevents Covid-19, it was reported today. According to the Chinese news agency Xinhua, national scientists and those of the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB) of the Continue reading
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Cuba collaborates with several countries in vaccine projects against Covid-19
– Productive capacities for Cuban vaccines are guaranteed. Havana, Mar 18 (Prensa Latina) Cuba collaborates with several countries in projects for the development of anti-Covid-19 vaccines, according to information released today by the Business Group of Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Industries (BioCubafarma) of this Caribbean Nation. In his official account on the social network Twitter, he Continue reading
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Cuban “Marianas” in the first line of Soberana 02
By Rubén G. Abelenda (*) Inspired by the Cuban Mother of the Nation, the mambisa Mariana Grajales, women health professionals and scientists from the Caribbean island worked tirelessly in the first line of combat against the Covid-19 pandemic, with the trials of five vaccine projects, including Sovereign 02, already in phase III. Thanks to the Continue reading
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Cuban laboratories already produce two vaccines against Covid-19 on a large scale
Havana, Feb 25 (RHC) Thousands of bulbs of two Cuban own vaccines against Covid-19 are produced today in laboratories in the largest of the Antilles, after the start of the manufacture of Abdala, the second formulation towards phase III. Previously, the production of Soberana 02, the anti-Covid-19 proposal of the famous Finlay Vaccine Institute (IFV), Continue reading
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Cuba already produces a large scale Soberana 02 vaccine against Covid19
Havana, Feb 21 (RHC) The president of the BioCubaFarma business group, Eduardo Martínez, toured the Biocen plant where a new batch of the Soberana 02 vaccine candidate is already being produced on a large scale, the most advanced in the country against Covid-19. BioCubafarma, on its official Twitter account, reiterated that the Cuban prototype is Continue reading
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Cuba produces the first batch of 150,000 vials of Sovereign 02 vaccine against Covid-19
Cubans will be able to know the result of the PCR by SMS or email Havana, Feb 11.- The Cuban biopharmaceutical industry produced the first batch of 150,000 vial bottles of Soberana 02, the most advanced Covid-19 vaccine candidate, which will start phase III of clinical trials in March, the developers highlighted. The large-scale production Continue reading
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Gambian Minister of Health reiterates gratitude to Cuba for its supportive cooperation
Banjul, Feb 2.- The Gambian Minister of Health, Dr. Ahmadou Lamin Samateh, reiterated today his gratitude to Cuba for the solidarity it provides to the people of this West African nation, in a meeting with the Caribbean island’s ambassador here, Rubén G. Abelenda. The holder stands out the humanitarian work carried out by the Cuban Continue reading
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Nothing like saving a life
By: MSc. Maria Ines Alvarez Garay (*) With much satisfaction today I tell you about the work of Dr. Liliana Rivera, a young but very talented Cuban doctor, specialist in Vascular Surgery, member of the Medical Brigade, who arrived in The Gambia full of desires to do and help this African nation, and she has Continue reading
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‘Cuba will be able to immunize its entire population in 2021’
Taken from The Point Cuba prepares 100 million doses of vaccine against Covid-19 Havana, Jan 24 (RT) – «Our four vaccine candidates against the new coronavirus are very safe, the trials are going well,» said Eduardo Martínez Díaz, president of BioCubaFarma, the business group for the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries of the Caribbean island. In what Continue reading
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Cuba prepares 100 million doses of vaccine against Covid-19
Havana, Jan 21 (Prensa Latina) Cuba creates the capacities to produce 100 million doses of the Sovereign 02 vaccine against Covid-19, announced the Finlay Institute, leader of the project. In a press conference with the Foreign News agencies accredited in the Caribbean Island, the director of that entity, Vicente Vérez, confirmed that the objective is Continue reading
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Cuba and Iran signed an agreement on Sovereign 02 vaccine against COVID 19
Teheran, January 9, 2020. The historical ties of friendship between the Republic of Cuba and the Islamic Republic of Iran were strengthened with the signing yesterday afternoon in Havana, of a new agreement related to the Sovereign 02 vaccine against Covid-19. Signed at the headquarters of the Group of Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Industries of Cuba, BioCubaFarma, Continue reading
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Cuba aspires to start vaccination against Covid-19 soon
– Cuba has significant experience in the production of vaccines, which have received wide international recognition. Havana, Jan 6 – (Agencies) Cuba aspires to start vaccination against Covid-19 in the first quarter of this year 2021, informed Eduardo Martínez, president of the Biocubafarma business group, an entity that brings together a large part of the Continue reading
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The «slaves» of solidarity and the vocation to save lives
By: MSc. María Inés Álvarez Garay (*) On October 10th, 1868, the patriot lawyer Carlos Manuel de Céspedes (1819-1874) freed his slaves and raised the Cubans in arms, the first founding event of the Revolutions of National Liberation in the largest archipelago of the Antilles. The ringing of the bell of his sugar mill La Continue reading
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Declaration of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba
“THE UNITED STATES STRENGTHENS ITS CAMPAIGN AGAINST CUBA’S INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL COOPERATION”. The Cuban people and the international community are aware of the dishonest campaign that the government of the United States has launched since 2019 to discredit Cuba’s international medical cooperation; exert pressure on the governments that have asked for it and deprive peoples of Continue reading
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COVID-19 en el mundo: OMS aprueba protocolo para investigar medicamentos a base de plantas en África
La Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) aprobó este sábado un protocolo para llevar a cabo la fase III de los ensayos clínicos de medicina herbal contra la COVID-19. Con esta iniciativa, la OMS pretende apoyar la capacidad técnica de científicos en África para desarrollar medicamentos tradicionales, teniendo en cuenta las normas internacionales. De acuerdo con Prosper Continue reading
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Contingente Henry Reeve cumple 15 años de fundado: “Nosotros ofrecemos vidas”
“Nosotros ofrecemos formar profesionales dispuestos a luchar contra la muerte. Nosotros demostraremos que hay respuesta a muchas de las tragedias del planeta”. Fidel Hace 15 años Cuba formó una brigada médica para brindar ayuda a la población afectada por el Huracán Katrina en Nueva Orleans y fue rechazada por el Gobierno de los Estados Unidos. Continue reading
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De Cuba a África, el compromiso del doctor Marcos con la vida
BEATRIZ VAILLANT RODRÍGUEZ | FOTO: CORTESÍA DEL ENTREVISTADO Santiago de Cuba, (ACN) Seguidor de las ideas de Ernesto Guevara (Che) y Fidel Castro, al doctor Marcos Antonio Sastre Acevedo le unen profundos lazos con África, continente donde cumple misión internacionalista por segunda vez, y desde allí ratifica su compromiso con la vida de los más Continue reading
"An Island on a Continent" 