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Bimonthly newsletter of the Fiocruz Global Health Center (Cris/Fiocruz)

July / 2021

Fiocruz is elected for the World Health Organization’s tropical disease council

Fiocruz was elected a member of the Joint Coordinating Board of the WHO’s Special Program for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases. The Foundation's mandate is to run from January 1st, 2022, to December 31st, 2025

COVID-19: In Paquetá island, Fiocruz participates in massive vaccination study

Almost 70% of the local population has been tested for the disease and everyone of eligible age (from 18 years old) was vaccinated in just one day

Specialists from nine laboratories debate advances of Fiocruz research in Antarctica

Teams are preparing for new research missions this year and debating ways to provide more robust responses to the Unified Health System (SUS, acronym in Portuguese for the Brazilian public health system)

Fiocruz signs COVID-19 vaccine Technology Transfer agreement

The contract with AstraZeneca formalizes the knowledge transfer to speed up the production of the Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient locally, at Bio-Manguinhos

Online seminar emphasizes challenges for the global health agenda in 2021

The webinar gathered eight debaters from different countries to discuss the impacts of COVID-19 in multilateral mechanisms, access to vaccines and inequities

New research suggests higher risk of reinfection by the Delta variant

The study published in Cell scientific journal suggests that blood serum from people previously infected with other strains is less potent against this variant first detected in India

Article: The impacts of climate change on homeless populations after the pandemic

Homeless populations were among the groups that suffered the most from COVID-19 and will continue to struggle with the new health crises associated with other events such as the climate crisis

COVID-19 Observatory highlights high rates of maternal mortality

Fiocruz Bulletin points out that Brazil has a high number of deaths among pregnant and postpartum women and a mortality rate of 7.2%, more than double the country general rate (2.8%)

Study confirms effectiveness of Wolbachia Method against dengue fever

The results showed a reduction of 77% of cases of dengue fever in areas that received the Aedes aegypti mosquito with the bacteria

COVID-19: research investigates the evolution of lethality worldwide

Using physics approaches and information theory techniques, researchers found evidence to support efficiency of measures such as the use of face masks, social distancing and mass testing

Seminar highlights the difficulties and potentials for South-South cooperation

Cooperation between the so-called Global South countries took a hard hit during the pandemic, said ambassador María del Carmen Squeff

E-learning: Course on speech therapy is now available at the Global Health Training Center

The course was developed by the National Institute of Women, Children and Adolescents Health Fernandes Figueira (IFF/Fiocruz) and aimed at speech therapists and other health workers. Available in English, Spanish and Portuguese

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