Cuba launches next phase of African malaria project

<p style="text-align: justify;">Leslie Salgado. 15 November 2010&nbsp; HAVANA. Cuba has announced plans to build biolarvicide factories in Brazil and several African countries in a bid to tackle malaria and dengue fever. Biolarvicides are biological products that are added to water to kill mosquitoes at the larval stage. Labiofam — the Cuban laboratory in charge of the project — has been producing two biolarvicides, Bactivec and Griselesf, since the 1990s. The products currently have to be imported into Africa, but the new factories mean that the biolarvicides can now be produced on the continent. Read More

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Cuba will have to amend several laws to implement economic reforms

<p style="text-align: justify;">A document containing the general plan of the Government of Raúl Castro for the reorganization of the economic model as to overcome the serious economic situation prevailing through decades has been discussed during a seminar. One of the concerns expressed and cited by Granma Daily said, there were measures to establish cooperatives in several fields beyond agriculture. Read More

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