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  1. Article: Protecting children takes more will than resources: José Juan Ortiz, UNICEF representative in cuba. Interview by Conner Gorry.

    Gorry, Conner

    MEDICC review

    2009  Volume 12, Issue 2, Page(s) 10–12

    MeSH term(s) Adolescent ; Breast Feeding ; Child ; Child Advocacy/history ; Child, Preschool ; Cuba ; Cyclonic Storms ; Education ; Female ; History, 20th Century ; History, 21st Century ; Humans ; Infant ; Infant, Newborn ; Male ; Parental Leave ; Pregnancy ; Pregnancy in Adolescence/prevention & control ; Sex Education ; Sports ; United Nations/history ; World Health Organization
    Language English
    Publishing date 2009-05-11
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Historical Article ; Interview
    ZDB-ID 2430374-4
    ISSN 1527-3172 ; 1555-7960
    ISSN (online) 1527-3172
    ISSN 1555-7960
    DOI 10.37757/MR2010.V12.N2.4
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  2. Article ; Online: Caution Ahead: Traffic Accidents in Cuba.

    Gorry, Conner

    MEDICC review

    2022  Volume 24, Issue 1, Page(s) 77

    MeSH term(s) Accidents, Traffic/prevention & control ; Cuba/epidemiology ; Humans
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-01-31
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2430374-4
    ISSN 1527-3172 ; 1527-3172
    ISSN (online) 1527-3172
    ISSN 1527-3172
    DOI 10.37757/MR2022.V24.N1.6
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  3. Article ; Online: Health Care is a Right, Not a Commodity: The Legacy of Dr Paul Farmer MD PhD.

    Gorry, Conner

    MEDICC review

    2022  Volume 24, Issue 3-4, Page(s) 14–17

    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Farmers ; Cuba ; Career Choice ; Biomedical Research ; Delivery of Health Care
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-10-31
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Interview
    ZDB-ID 2430374-4
    ISSN 1527-3172 ; 1527-3172
    ISSN (online) 1527-3172
    ISSN 1527-3172
    DOI 10.37757/MR2022.V24.N3-4.12
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  4. Article ; Online: Vaccines and Public Trust: Containing COVID-19 in Cuba.

    Gorry, Conner

    MEDICC review

    2022  Volume 24, Issue 1, Page(s) 9–13

    Abstract: As 2021 drew to a close, Cuba struggled to contain the highly transmissible omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, braced for a new wave of infections and kept a close eye on other variants of concern popping up around the world-a common experience to countries ... ...

    Abstract As 2021 drew to a close, Cuba struggled to contain the highly transmissible omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, braced for a new wave of infections and kept a close eye on other variants of concern popping up around the world-a common experience to countries everywhere as we head into the second year of the pandemic. In Cuba, however, there is one marked difference making all the difference: by early January, 87% of the population was fully vaccinated using a three-dose schedule of vaccines developed and produced on the island.[1] This massive vaccination campaign is complemented by a rapid booster rollout-also using Cuban vaccines-that began in December 2021 and was ongoing as we finalized this issue. The island nation was able to achieve the third highest COVID-19 vaccination rate in the world[2] after decades of scientific investment, research, discovery and innovation; regulatory oversight and compliance; professional training; and increased production capacity. But a vaccine is only as effective as the health system charged with administering it-in a safe and timely manner, to as many people as possible. Here too, Cuba has decades of experience, including a national pediatric immunization program where 98% of children under 5 are immunized against 13 diseases,[3] an annual polio vaccination campaign (both launched in 1962 and uninterrupted since) and campaigns to contain epidemics such as H1N1. When the first COVID-19 cases were detected on the island in March 2020, Cuba harnessed this vaccine experience, making a hard tack towards developing its own vaccines. Two of the main protagonists in the country's biotechnology development, the Finlay Vaccine Institute (IFV) and the Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Center (CIGB), both with several groundbreaking preventive and therapeutic vaccines in their portfolios, led the search for a vaccine. Today, Cuba has three vaccines authorized for emergency use-Soberana 02 and Soberana Plus developed by IFV, and Abdala, developed by CIGB. Schedules with these vaccines have demonstrated more than 90% efficacy in clinical trials,[4] and after regulatory approval for emergency use, became the backbone of Cuban COVID-19 vaccination efforts. A fourth vaccine, Mambisa (CIGB), administered nasally, and a fifth, Soberana 01 (IFV) are still in clinical trials. For this installment in MEDICC Review's series spotlighting leading women of Cuban science, we sat down with Dr Verena Muzio, Director of Clinical Research at CIGB. A pioneer of Cuba's biotechnology sector, she is an immunologist with a doctorate in biological sciences. Her professional trajectory began researching the genetically engineered hepatitis B surface antigen that led to the development of Cuba's recombinant hepatitis B vaccine in 1989. The same technological platform used in this vaccine was used to develop CIGB's Abdala vaccine against SARS-CoV-2-part of the reason Cuba was able to secure a vaccine so quickly. A phase 3 clinical trial determined a 92.28% efficacy rate for Abdala, with results to appear in forthcoming publications.
    MeSH term(s) COVID-19 ; COVID-19 Vaccines ; Child ; Cuba ; Female ; Humans ; Influenza A Virus, H1N1 Subtype ; Pandemics ; SARS-CoV-2 ; Trust
    Chemical Substances COVID-19 Vaccines
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-01-31
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Interview
    ZDB-ID 2430374-4
    ISSN 1527-3172 ; 1527-3172
    ISSN (online) 1527-3172
    ISSN 1527-3172
    DOI 10.37757/MR2022.V24.N1.11
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  5. Article ; Online: In Haiti, Cubans Among First Responders, Again: Luis Orlando Oliveros-Serrano MD Coordinator, Cuban Medical Team in Haiti.

    Gorry, Conner

    MEDICC review

    2021  Volume 24, Issue 1, Page(s) 19–20

    Abstract: Soaring summer temperatures, systematic urban and political violence, unreliable infrastructure-power outages, water shortages, sporadic transportation and interruption of other basic services-plus the illness, death and economic straits wrought by COVID- ...

    Abstract Soaring summer temperatures, systematic urban and political violence, unreliable infrastructure-power outages, water shortages, sporadic transportation and interruption of other basic services-plus the illness, death and economic straits wrought by COVID-19, are what Haitians awake to every day. On the morning of August 14, 2021, they also woke to the earth in the throes of violent, lethal convulsions caused by a 7.2-magnitude earthquake, along the same fault line responsible for the devastating 2010 disaster and stronger still. As if this weren't enough, Tropical Storm Grace was bearing down on the nation, about to dump biblical amounts of rain on the heels of Tropical Storm Fred. When the Haitian President was assassinated on July 7, Haiti still had not received a single dose of any COVID-19 vaccine-indeed, it was the last country in the Americas to receive vaccines. Later that month, 500,000 doses arrived in the country, donated by the United States via COVAX, the WHO-led initiative to assure at least some vaccines reached low- and middle-income countries. In Haiti, getting those vaccines into the arms of the population is beset by cold chain, distribution and bureaucratic problems, and compounded by widespread vaccine hesitancy; when the earthquake struck, only 14,074 of those doses had been administered.[1,2] Suddenly there was a new, more urgent tragedy, the earthquake leaving thousands of dead, injured and displaced-perhaps hundreds of thousands once the real tally emerges. As in the 2010 quake, the doctors, nurses and technicians comprising Cuba's medical team in Haiti-a commitment Cuba has maintained with its Caribbean neighbor since 1998-were among the first responders. The 2010 relief effort included an additional 1500 health professionals and specialists from Cuba's Henry Reeve Emergency Medical Contingent. Just 24 hours after the August 14th quake, MEDICC Review spoke by phone with Dr Luis Orlando Oliveros-Serrano in Port-au-Prince, where he coordinates Cuba's medical team in Haiti. His disaster response experience had already taken him to Haiti twice before and to Pakistan, Bolivia and beyond.
    MeSH term(s) COVID-19 ; COVID-19 Vaccines ; Cuba ; Emergency Responders ; Haiti ; Humans ; Male ; SARS-CoV-2 ; United States
    Chemical Substances COVID-19 Vaccines
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-08-21
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Interview
    ZDB-ID 2430374-4
    ISSN 1527-3172 ; 1527-3172
    ISSN (online) 1527-3172
    ISSN 1527-3172
    DOI 10.37757/MR2022.V24.N1.1
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  6. Article ; Online: Science as a Social Good: Iramis Alonso-Porro Director, Juventud Técnica.

    Gorry, Conner

    MEDICC review

    2020  Volume 22, Issue 3, Page(s) 12–15

    Abstract: Science journalism was little known in Cuba when Iramis Alonso wrote her the-sis on the specialized fi eld in 1990. That year, journalism degree from the Uni-versity of Havana in hand, she set off to Cuba's eastern countryside to complete two years of ... ...

    Abstract Science journalism was little known in Cuba when Iramis Alonso wrote her the-sis on the specialized fi eld in 1990. That year, journalism degree from the Uni-versity of Havana in hand, she set off to Cuba's eastern countryside to complete two years of social service reporting for local, regional and national print media. Living in the mountains of Holguín, a typical day for the cub reporter took her to caves, forests and fi elds for stories on the intersection of science, culture and the environment. Alonso credits this formative experience with igniting her passion for investigative and sci-ence journalism, setting her on a unique career path as a journalist and editor specializing in the sciences writ large: climate change, astronomy, mathemat-ics and other hard sciences, engineer-ing, information technologies and social sciences, among others.
    Keywords covid19
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-08-19
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2430374-4
    ISSN 1527-3172 ; 1555-7960
    ISSN (online) 1527-3172
    ISSN 1555-7960
    DOI 10.37757/MR2020.V22.N3.4
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  7. Article ; Online: Six Decades of Cuban Global Health Cooperation.

    Gorry, Conner

    MEDICC review

    2020  Volume 21, Issue 4, Page(s) 83–92

    Abstract: In 1978, the world was put on notice: health inequalities exacerbated by lack of access to essential services was a ticking time bomb threatening social and economic development everywhere. That year, over 100 countries signed on to the Declaration of ... ...

    Abstract In 1978, the world was put on notice: health inequalities exacerbated by lack of access to essential services was a ticking time bomb threatening social and economic development everywhere. That year, over 100 countries signed on to the Declaration of Alma-Ata, which affirmed that "health . . . a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, is a fundamental human right." To guarantee this right, governments were urged to prioritize the provision of quality, continuous, comprehensive and affordable primary care for their entire populations by the year 2000.
    MeSH term(s) Cuba ; Developing Countries ; Global Health/history ; Health Policy ; History, 20th Century ; History, 21st Century ; Human Rights ; Humans ; International Cooperation ; Primary Health Care
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-03-28
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Historical Article ; Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2430374-4
    ISSN 1527-3172 ; 1527-3172
    ISSN (online) 1527-3172
    ISSN 1527-3172
    DOI 10.37757/MR2019.V21.N4.15
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  8. Article ; Online: SOBERANA, Cuba's COVID-19 Vaccine Candidates: Dagmar García-Rivera PhD.

    Gorry, Conner

    MEDICC review

    2020  Volume 22, Issue 4, Page(s) 10–15

    Abstract: On August 13, 2020, Cuba's national regulatory agency, the Center for Quality Control of Medicines, Equipment and Medical Devices (CECMED), authorized clinical trials for SOBERANA 01-Cuba's fi rst vaccine candidate and the fi rst from Latin America and ... ...

    Abstract On August 13, 2020, Cuba's national regulatory agency, the Center for Quality Control of Medicines, Equipment and Medical Devices (CECMED), authorized clinical trials for SOBERANA 01-Cuba's fi rst vaccine candidate and the fi rst from Latin America and the Caribbean. On August 24, parallel Phase I/II double blind, randomized, controlled clinical trials were launched at clinical sites in Havana to evaluate the vaccine's safety and immunogenicity. Analysis of results and development of different formulations are currently under way and Phase III clinical trials are planned for early 2021. At the time of writing, a second vaccine candidate, SOBERANA 02, was in late-stage development and preparing to begin separate trials this fall.
    MeSH term(s) COVID-19/epidemiology ; COVID-19/prevention & control ; COVID-19 Vaccines ; Cuba/epidemiology ; Double-Blind Method ; Humans ; Pandemics ; Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic ; SARS-CoV-2
    Chemical Substances COVID-19 Vaccines
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-12-05
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Interview
    ZDB-ID 2430374-4
    ISSN 1527-3172 ; 1527-3172
    ISSN (online) 1527-3172
    ISSN 1527-3172
    DOI 10.37757/MR2020.V22.N4.11
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  9. Article ; Online: Global Collaboration in Times of COVID-19: Cuba's Emergency Medical Contingent.

    Gorry, Conner

    MEDICC review

    2020  Volume 22, Issue 2, Page(s) 64–66

    Abstract: The days are long and arduous, with end-less patients to attend, often in a foreign language, always on foreign shores. Far from family and the familiar. Sleep is fi tful at best for health profession-als serving in emergency situations-when sickness ... ...

    Abstract The days are long and arduous, with end-less patients to attend, often in a foreign language, always on foreign shores. Far from family and the familiar. Sleep is fi tful at best for health profession-als serving in emergency situations-when sickness obeys no clock and patients' pain haunts even the quiet moments. The crisis scenario varies: post-earthquake, hurricane or tsunami; amid a cholera or Ebola epidemic. The countries vary: Haiti, Pakistan, Guatemala, Mozambique, Sierra Leone. What does not vary is the answer to the calls for help and Cuban professionals' commitment to care for the most vulner-able. These aren't armchair musings or a political pat on the back: they are my own conclusions after living for weeks in close-quarter tents with Cuban doctors, nurses and biomedical engineers in post-earth-quake Pakistan and Haiti, and witnessing their work.
    MeSH term(s) Betacoronavirus ; COVID-19 ; Coronavirus Infections ; Cuba ; Emergency Medicine ; Humans ; International Cooperation ; Pandemics ; Pneumonia, Viral ; SARS-CoV-2 ; Workforce
    Keywords covid19
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-05-30
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2430374-4
    ISSN 1527-3172 ; 1527-3172
    ISSN (online) 1527-3172
    ISSN 1527-3172
    DOI 10.37757/MR2020.V22.N2.17
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  10. Article ; Online: COVID-19 Case Detection: Cuba's Active Screening Approach.

    Gorry, Conner

    MEDICC review

    2020  Volume 22, Issue 2, Page(s) 58–63

    Abstract: Meningitis, neuropathy, HIV, dengue-since the 1960s, Cuba has faced its share of epidemics. More recently, Cuban health pro-fessionals tackled domestic outbreaks of H1N1 (2009) and Zika (2016), and worked alongside colleagues from around the world to ... ...

    Abstract Meningitis, neuropathy, HIV, dengue-since the 1960s, Cuba has faced its share of epidemics. More recently, Cuban health pro-fessionals tackled domestic outbreaks of H1N1 (2009) and Zika (2016), and worked alongside colleagues from around the world to stem Ebola in West Africa; all three were categorized by WHO as public health emergencies of international concern. In December 2019, China reported its fi rst cluster of pneumo-nia cases, later identifi ed as the novel coronavirus disease COVID-19. In January 2020, Cuban authorities convened a multi-sector working group coordinated by the Ministry of Pub-lic Health (MINSAP) and Civil Defense to tailor its national epi-demic control plan to confront the rapidly-spreading disease. The plan features a national reporting system and database, with standard protocols including early case detection, contact tracing and regularly-scheduled public health messaging. In late January, no fewer than six ministries, plus the National Sports and Recreation Institute, Customs, Immigration and national media outlets, came together to adapt domestic proto-cols and design multi-phase control and response mechanisms to combat the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
    MeSH term(s) Betacoronavirus/isolation & purification ; COVID-19 ; Coronavirus Infections/diagnosis ; Cuba ; Humans ; Information Storage and Retrieval ; Mass Screening/organization & administration ; Pandemics ; Pneumonia, Viral/diagnosis ; Public Health ; SARS-CoV-2
    Keywords covid19
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-05-30
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2430374-4
    ISSN 1527-3172 ; 1527-3172
    ISSN (online) 1527-3172
    ISSN 1527-3172
    DOI 10.37757/MR2020.V22.N2.16
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