Brazil and Cuba will develop medicines and vaccines against Alzheimer’s or diabetes

Brazil and Cuba This Saturday they signed three agreements to jointly develop medicines and vaccines against him Alzheimer’s wave diabetes taking advantage of synergies, and to resume scientific and technological exchanges.

The signing took place during the meeting held at the Palace of the Revolution in Havana by the president of Cuba, Miguel Diaz-Caneland his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silvavisiting the island on the occasion of the summit of the Group of 77 and China between this Friday and Saturday.

The meeting reflects the resumption of bilateral relations between the socialist country and the South American giant, which were frozen during the mandate of the previous Brazilian president, the far-right Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2022).

The Brazilian Minister of Health, Nísia Trinidade, explained in a press conference the previous day that the agreements include developing innovations in vaccines and medicines for chronic diseases such as Alzheimer’s wave diabetes.

In addition, he noted that the two countries will reactivate their binational committee with health authorities, which will proceed to define a work agenda that benefits both countries, in which Cuba will contribute its “state-of-the-art knowledge” and Brazil, its ability to “produce at scale.”

The possibility of training Cuban technicians in the management of satellite surveillance systems that Brazil uses to prevent natural disasters and support agriculture will also be studied, explained the Brazilian Minister of Science and Technology, Luciana Santos.

The ministers are part of the delegation of the Brazilian president, who arrived this Friday in Havana to participate in the G77+China summit, a forum in which Cuba holds the temporary presidency. He is also accompanied by Chancellor Mauro Vieira and the Minister of Agrarian Development and Family Agriculture, Paulo Teixeira.

The summit seeks precisely to promote south-south cooperation and narrow the technological gap between industrialized countries and developing economies, the majority in this forum for consultation and dialogue.

They also accompany Lula on this trip to Cuba a group of businessmen and the presidential advisor Celso Amorim, who already expressed last August the intention of Brazil to “reapproach” Cuba during another visit to Havana.

A week later, the Brazilian Export Promotion Agency (ApexBrasil) and the Directorate of Communication and Promotion of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment (ProCuba) signed a memorandum of understanding to expand the participation of small and medium-sized companies in exports.

This is the first visit by a Brazilian president to the Caribbean island since 2014 and the first since Lula assumed his third term in January (he already visited in 2003, 2008 and 2010, during his first two terms).

Bolsonaro, openly hostile to the Cuban government, froze a large but not uncontroversial bilateral cooperation program that had led hundreds of Cuban doctors to work in remote regions of Cuba. Brazil.

(With information from EFE)