Covid-19

Top Cuban Vaccine Maker: How We Took on COVID Despite U.S. Siege

BT’s Rania Khalek was on the ground in Havana, Cuba, and spoke to Dr. Vicente Vérez Bencomo, General director of the Finlay vaccine institute in […]

CABEI approves first operation to Cuba for €46.7 million to support the fight against COVID-19

The Project will benefit more than 11 million people as part of the fight against COVID-19. To strengthen capacities in the development and production of […]

Cuba donates Abdala vaccines against Covid-19 to Syria

The objective of the shipment is “to help this brother people in their fight against the pandemic,” said the scientific research institution in a message […]

Cuba’s vaccine success story sails past mark set by rich world’s Covid efforts

The island nation struggles to keep the lights on but has inoculated 90% of population with home-developed vaccines Ed Augustin in HavanaWed 5 Jan 2022 10.00 […]

Cuba’s bet on home-grown COVID vaccines is paying off

Preprint data show that a three-dose combo of Soberana jabs has 92.4% efficacy in clinical trials. When the COVID-19 pandemic began, Cuba decided not to […]

Despite the Odds: Cuba’s Vaccines Effective & Set for 93% Rate by Nov 2021

While an intense financial blockade attempts to strangle Cuba, the island nation has still performed vaccine research for over three decades — and has produced […]

Cuba has produced 30 million doses of the Abdala vaccine

In Cuba, 30 million doses of the Abdala vaccine have been produced to guarantee the immunization of the population over 19 years of age , which […]

Cuba’s Abdala vaccine proved 92.28% effective in last-stage clinical trials.

Cuba said on Monday its three-shot Abdala vaccine against the coronavirus had proved 92.28% effective in last-stage clinical trials. The announcement came just days after […]

End the War on Human Life

We think we know what war looks like: soldiers in uniforms, guns and tanks, dust, smoke, satellite phones and barbed wire fences. The list does […]

Washington Post: Against the odds, Cuba could become a coronavirus vaccine powerhouse

The Washington Post recalled on Monday how the efforts led by Cuban leader Fidel Castro to develop biotechnology on the island in the early 1980s, […]