By Erasmo Magoulas

In the vast majority of developing countries science is a commodity in the process of disappearing. Government policies in this area, rather than investing money and resources to increase areas of research, which would benefit the majority of their population, take away money and resources from science in order to fulfill the requirements of the International Monetary Fund, which is, pay the immoral external debt.

Developed countries are not in any better shape. A huge proportion of their budgets are oriented to research and science, focusing on the war industry, cosmetology, agribusiness, electronics and robotics, and pharmaceutical products to cure first world diseases. In other words, a huge amount of money goes to fulfill the requirements and desires of 25% of the global population. The rest as they were during the Middle Ages are in God’s hands.

Research, science and technology, when they are controlled by a sovereign country become an indispensable tool of development, and that is just what imperialism cannot tolerate.

Cuba is an exception in this field, as well as in many others.     

Behind the Finlay Institute’s walls, a scientific institution working on the research and production of vaccines, Cuban scientist are currently manufacturing nine different antigen vaccines, according to Ramon Barbera, the lab’s deputy director of production. Speaking to the media at the 12th International Fair Health Care for Everyone in Havana, Barbera said that the institute has two production plants where scientists make six different types of vaccines against tetanus, typhus and other combined vaccines as part of a vaccination program for different ages, approved by the Cuban Health Ministry. The expert said the Finlay institute is carrying out the clinical trial of a Cuban vaccine against cholera that will be evaluated shortly in African countries, where the disease is endemic. Cholera covers a very wide medical geography. It became endemic in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and has even affected Europe. It is estimated that there are 120,000 fatalities annually, but accurate figures are difficult to obtain due to fear of international stigmatization and possible sanctions.

Another Scientific Centre in Cuba is the Molecular Immunology Centre, where Cuban scientists have already created a Monoclonal Antibody, which was approved by Chinese health authorities.

The TheraCIM h-R3 is a humanized monoclonal antibody used in the treatment of patients with advanced cancer of the head and neck. Cuba is a miracle of efficiency and efficacy. A country with a limited amount of resources, blockaded for almost 45 years by the most powerful imperialistic nation, and attacked systematically by terrorist mercenaries from the United States, can overcome all of these obstacles and offer its help and solidarity to millions of the dispossessed and under-privileged all over the world.

Cuba itself is a miracle.    

Erasmo Magoulas is an alternative media producer

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