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The South African Communist Party (SACP) has accused the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) of being “captured by Western medicine”.
Speaking at the Moses Kotane memorial lecture on Sunday, SACP first deputy general-secretary Solly Mapaila said that SAHPRA was using delay tactics over Cuba’s Covid-19 vaccine registration process,
“Apart from Europe and the United States, SAHPRA seems to delay the registration of medicine and vaccines from other countries across the globe. When these countries tell SAHPRA to jump in regards to their medicine, the institution says how high, but that it is not the case with others as they always tell us about its terrible procedures. I believe that SAHPRA has no reason why it hasn’t been utilising medicine from Cuba,” he said.
Cuba s push for coronavirus vaccine sovereignty
The Conversation
07 May 2021, 22:42 GMT+10
This is a transcript of episode 14 of The Conversation Weekly podcast Cuba s race for a coronavirus vaccine + making life s big decisions . In this episode, how Cuba is pushing ahead with developing its own coronavirus vaccines - and could be nearing vaccine sovereignty . And we hear from a researcher about what he learned from asking hundreds of people about the biggest decisions of their lives.
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Gemma Ware: Hello and welcome to The Conversation Weekly.
Dan Merino: This week, how Cuba is pushing ahead with the development of its own coronavirus vaccines, and could be nearing vaccine sovereignty.
[Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.] Emiliano Rodríguez Mega (
Nature) writes, “If everything goes to plan, Cuba could be the first Latin American country to develop and manufacture its own vaccine against COVID-19.”
If everything goes to plan, Cuba could be the first Latin American country to develop and manufacture its own vaccine against COVID-19.
Vicente Vérez Bencomo, director-general of the state-owned Finlay Institute of Vaccines in Havana, where one of Cuba’s most advanced vaccine candidates was created, thinks the chances are good. The candidate, called Soberana 02, entered phase III trials in people in March. It’s one of the country’s two homegrown vaccines the other is called Abdala to make it this far.
Posted: May 04, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: May 4
A healthcare worker prepares a dose of China s Sinovac Biotech vaccine for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at a drive-thru vaccination station, as a mass vaccination program continues in Jakarta, Indonesia, April 30, 2021. It s an inactivated vaccine being used in countries around the world, but not in Canada.(Ajeng Dinar Ulfiana/Reuters)