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France contributes 45 million euros to vaccine production in Cuba

2021-09-23T01:15:18.907Z


Cuba will increase its production capacities for meningitis and pneumonia vaccines, particularly for Africa, thanks to a ...


Cuba will increase its production capacities of vaccines against meningitis and pneumonia, intended in particular for Africa, thanks to a financing of 45 million euros by France, under an agreement signed Wednesday, September 22 in Havana. .

This funding

"will allow the purchase of new equipment and the redevelopment of production centers"

, explained at a press conference Patrice Paoli, Ambassador of France in Cuba, specifying that the first funds would be paid in the last quarter of 2021, for this three-year project.

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The money will be intended for the Finlay Institute of Vaccination, for the production of vaccines against meningitis (meningococcal and pneumococcal) and against pneumonia (pneumococcus) for the Cuban population, countries of sub-Saharan Africa and more widely , developing countries where they are distributed at low cost via the WHO and Unicef.

Thanks to this financial contribution, the Finlay Institute will also be able

"to reach the optimal standards required at the international level"

, according to the press release.

The Finlay Institute has notably developed the vaccine against the coronavirus Soberana 2, currently in the process of requesting approval from the WHO, as well as the other Cuban vaccine Abdala, produced by the Center for Genetic Engineering and biotechnology (IGBC).

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As of Monday, the country had already fully vaccinated 46% of its population with its own vaccines. He also launched a unique campaign in the world to vaccinate children from the age of two, a condition set by the government for the reopening of schools in November.

"We already have 1.6 million children vaccinated with a first dose"

of the three planned, said Wednesday Vicente Vérez, director of the Finlay Institute, and by Friday they should be

"almost two million"

, with

“Virtually no side effects”

seen so far.

Subject to an American embargo since 1962, Cuba began to design its own vaccines in the 1980s, notably discovering the first vaccine against meningitis B, and today nearly 80% of the vaccines in its immunization program are produced locally. .

Source: lefigaro

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