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Covid-19: Latin America defies nationalism and circumstance to develop its own vaccines

Latin American countries not only developed their own covid vaccine prototypes but also rolled them out. Martín De Ambrosio reports on a region taking its first steps towards vaccine security

When the pandemic shook the world in 2020, Argentina, like many countries, went into full lockdown. Juliana Cassataro, a researcher at the National University of General San Martín, wondered what her team could do to help. The answer was obvious for a researcher specialising in oral vaccines: make one.

“From the beginning we planned to make it as a booster we realised that we couldn’t compete with developers with millions and millions of dollars and the support of bigger nation states,” says Cassataro. Her team received a small grant of $100 000 from the Argentine ministry of science in May 2020 to design a prototype based on Cassataro’s specialism: recombinant protein vaccines.

Confidence was not high. Colleagues and politicians told them to give up it was not fea ....

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Cuba's push for coronavirus vaccine sovereignty

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. ....

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