A disease born of slavery’s genetic legacy now has a functional cure — at US$2.2 million per patient, available almost exclusively in wealthy countries. But Cuba built a comprehensive care model four decades ago that CARICOM nations could adopt tomorrow. The question is whether anyone will.
MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, October 12, 2026 - Calvin G. Brown | There is a disease that killed an estimated 81,000 children under the age of five in 2021, making it the 12th-leading cause of death among the world’s youngest children, according to the Global Burden of Disease study published in The Lancet Haematology.
