Covid-19

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, […]

Cuba’s Vaccine Revolution: The Island of Freedom Developing Whopping Five Anti-COVID Jabs

While the EU is struggling to stockpile enough anti-COVID jabs, Cuba, a small Caribbean island nation surviving a decades-long US trade embargo, kicked off Phase […]

Coronavirus Vaccine Nears Final Tests in Cuba. Tourists May Be Inoculated.

By Ed Augustin and Natalie Kitroeff Amid bread shortages, Cuba gets one step closer to a scientific milestone: the mass production of a coronavirus vaccine invented on the […]

Cuba is working on a homegrown COVID-19 vaccine program. It has a history of fighting disease without help from the West

A vaccine developed by the Cuban government is touted to enter Phase 3 trials in March, raising the prospect of the small, communist nation overseeing […]

SA to nominate Cuban medics for Nobel prize, says grateful Ramaphosa

SA will nominate the Cuban medical brigade for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for its work around the world to fight Covid-19. President Cyril Ramaphosa […]