The Cuban at the Pharmacy

Cimavax-EGF.
CimaVax-EGF is a vaccine used to treat cancer, specifically non-small-cell lung carcinoma., which was developed in Cuba. The vaccine was the result of a 25-year research project at Cuba’s Center of Molecular Immunology

Clinical trials of a drug used against lung cancer became successful back in 2007.Cimavax as it is known today is being used to effectively fight the disease on thousands of patients in Cuba.This medicine has the potential to open new doors for needy patients across the world had it not been for the trade embargo imposed on the country during the Cold War.
Eventhough much of Cuba seems to belong to the previous century.It’s health care is not.Cuba has the same life expectancy as that of the US,but spends less than 10th of what Americans spend on health care per capita.It has more Doctors per capita than any other country.It’s infant mortality rate is also better than most developed countries.As a small communist nation it’s health care was born out of necessity.The 1963 trade embargo restricted imports of medicines from the US and in the early 90s it’s economic isolation worsened with collapse of the Soviet Union.This led them to the forefront of medical breakthroughs.
This small nation is contributing to the medicine pool like never before, which helps them achieve global attention.Attention can lead to opening up of the economy.More economic transactions and jobs in the medicine manufacturing sector.
This is confirmed by former US president Barack Obama’s visit to the country on March last year.The first in over 90 years.
So the next time you light up a cuban cigar.The cure comes complementary.