Data de publicação: 30/03/2023 - 15:29
The Irish Minister of International Development and Diaspora, Sean Fleming, visited Fiocruz on March 15th to discuss partnership projects between the country and Fiocruz. At the center of discussions is the possibility of developing a center in Ireland similar to the International Platform for Science, Technology and Innovation in Health (Pictis), in Aveiro/Portugal. The platform is a center for research, innovation, technological development,...
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Data de publicação: 30/03/2023 - 15:17
Representatives of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC/Fiocruz) and Columbia University, in the United States, met to initiate a dialogue aimed at cooperation in the research on climate change. The delegation from the American institution was received at the Mourisco Castle, in Manguinhos, Rio de Janeiro. The meeting included presentations by the Deputy Director of Reference Laboratories, Outpatient Clinics and Biological Collections, Elizabeth...
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Data de publicação: 24/03/2023 - 13:35
The homicide rate of women in Brazil increased 31.46% in the period from 1980 to 2019, from 4.40 (1980-1984) to 6.09 (2015-2019) per 100,000 women, reveals the study Female homicides in Brazil and its major regions (1980-2019): An analysis of age, period, and cohort effects, to be published in the journal Violence Against Women. Conducted by researchers from Fiocruz, the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), the National Cancer...
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Data de publicação: 23/03/2023 - 15:29
The Immunobiological Technology Institute (Bio-Manguinhos/Fiocruz) is participating in the Regional Workshop on evidence-based vaccine introduction, monitoring and assessment: The case of the COVID-19 and PCV vaccines, promoted by the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) from March 13th to 15th. The event aims to discuss the process and body of evidence to support policy making related to vaccine introduction and its assessment, using...
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Data de publicação: 23/03/2023 - 15:18
The Governor of Ceará, Elmano de Freitas, was received, last Thursday (3/16), by the Acting President of Fiocruz, Mario Moreira, to discuss advances in the Eusébio Health Innovation District, of which Fiocruz Ceará is part. The meeting focused on investments for the region and on attracting partners that might add to the health industrial center, among which is the Pasteur Institute. Urbanistic and legal issues were also...
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Data de publicação: 22/03/2023 - 11:00
Fiocruz and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) discussed last wednesday (15) how to improve and strengthen the bilateral health agenda between the institutions during President Lula's State visit to China. The conference took place at the Academy's Institute of Microbiology, with which Fiocruz has been strengthening its relations since 2017.
The conference took place at the Academy's Institute of Microbiology
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Data de publicação: 14/03/2023 - 16:19
Published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (Jamma) Network, a study by the Centre for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS/Fiocruz Bahia) quantified the risk of death in more vulnerable women and pointed to a general rate of protection for maternal death of 18% in women beneficiaries of the Bolsa Família Program (PBF). Fruit of the doctoral thesis by epidemiologist Flávia Jôse Alves, associated...
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Data de publicação: 13/03/2023 - 08:54
The Venezuelan women and girls who migrated to Brazil make little use of contraceptive methods, have many children and came in search of health care services, a motivation to migrate second only to hunger. About 10% of them arrived in Brazil pregnant. The information is from an unprecedented survey by the National School of Public Health (ENSP/Fiocruz) and the Federal University of Maranhão (UFMA), coordinated by the University of...
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Data de publicação: 06/03/2023 - 17:11
Fiocruz and the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDi) signed, this Wednesday (3/1), a Strategic Alliance Agreement, which expands and strengthens the relationship between the two institutions. The Alliance's goal is to implement, by 2027, actions that help ensuring that drugs are developed and delivered to patients in often neglected communities, in an agreement that should not be limited to Latin America.
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Data de publicação: 06/03/2023 - 16:52
The Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases (INI/Fiocruz) participated in a study that assessed cases of Monkeypox in people with advanced HIV infection. Presented at the 30th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2023) and published (2/21) in the scientific journal The Lancet, the study had researchers from 19 countries such as the United States, Spain, Mexico, the United Kingdom and Brazil, who provided...
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Data de publicação: 06/03/2023 - 16:32
Fiocruz's experience in using data and information to formulate health policies led to a two-day visit by the delegation of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (Nepad) this Monday and Tuesday (2/28 and 29). Accompanied by members of the Brazilian Cooperation Agency (ABC), from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the group was able to learn a little more about the Foundation's operations, from drug research to vaccine production...
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Data de publicação: 01/03/2023 - 17:02
The challenges and perspectives for the development and expansion of local vaccine production were highlighted at the 6th Global Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation (G-Stic 2023) in the two panels held on February 14th and 15th, in Rio de Janeiro. The plenary sessions brought together representatives of public and private organizations, aimed at seeking synergies to advance the agenda to accelerate access to vaccines. In their...
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Data de publicação: 01/03/2023 - 16:20
Inequalities in COVID-19 vaccination coverage between indigenous and non-indigenous populations were estimated in a study conducted by researchers from the Center for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (Cidacs/Fiocruz Bahia), together with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), the University of São Paulo (USP), the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona), the Federal...
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Data de publicação: 28/02/2023 - 18:48
Over a year after the last in-person meeting, representatives of Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay in the Ad Hoc Committee to Promote the Expansion of the Regional Productive Capacity of Medecines, Immunizations and Health Technologies (CAHECPR) met last Thursday (2/16), at Fiocruz, in search of strategic actions for common problems. The event was not limited to discussing the shortcomings that became clear during the COVID-19 pandemic: it...
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Data de publicação: 28/02/2023 - 12:39
Fiocruz received last Friday (10/2), the Technical Leader of the World Health Organization (WHO) for COVID-19, Maria Van Kerkhove, to discuss projects in the fields of epidemiological surveillance and computational modeling for scenario analysis. Researchers of the Foundation presented their projects, which may help anticipate new health emergencies. The Vice-President of Research and Biological Collections at Fiocruz, Rodrigo Correia, moderated...
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Data de publicação: 24/02/2023 - 12:31
The challenges of international cooperation, the opportunities for the transition to a low-carbon economy and the lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic were some of the themes that guided the discussions after the first plenary of the 6th Global Conference on Innovation and Sustainability (2023 G-Stic), which began this Monday (2/13) and runs until February 15 at Expo Mag, in Rio de Janeiro. The event, co-hosted by Fiocruz, gathers around...
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Data de publicação: 24/02/2023 - 12:08
Last Thursday (2/9), an entourage from the University of Münster, in Germany, visited Fiocruz to advance the existing cooperation between researchers from the Foundation and the German institution. On the occasion, the university's dean, Johannes Wessels, and the vice-president of Research and Biological Collections, Rodrigo Corrêa, signed a Memorandum of Understanding aimed at formalizing this cooperation and opening space for...
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Data de publicação: 23/02/2023 - 12:14
The Laboratory of Clinical Research in Neuroinfections (LapClin-Neuro) of the Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases (INI/Fiocruz), coordinated by researcher Ana Claudia Celestino Bezerra Leite, joined in February, in this year, the Global Virus Network (GVN), a collaboration network for research on viruses, present in 36 countries and with 67 affiliated centers of excellence. The laboratory's participation aims to enhance...
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Data de publicação: 23/02/2023 - 11:43
Researcher at the Latin American Center for Studies on Violence and Health Jorge Careli (Claves/Ensp), Cecília Minayo received the international award from The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS Awards 2022 – 2024) in the Social Scientist category. The award was granted in recognition of the researcher's contribution to studies on violence and its impacts on health, in addition to the application of qualitative approaches in public...
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Data de publicação: 13/02/2023 - 15:00
Researchers from the Centre for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) unveiled the AESOP Early Warning System for Outbreaks with Epi-Pandemic Potential at the 6th Global Science Technology and Innovation Conference (G-STIC) in Rio de Janeiro, with support from the Brazilian Ministry of Health, The Rockefeller Foundation, and the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), that co-organizes the...
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Data de publicação: 13/02/2023 - 12:11
A project coordinated by researcher Paulo Basta, from Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sergio Arouca (Ensp/Fiocruz), will examine samples of the quality of water for human consumption and sediments in the villages of Maturacá and Ariabu, in the Yanomami Maturacá Indigenous Land (TI), in São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Amazonas, aiming to reduce the incidence of acute diarrheal disease (ADD) and infant mortality from...
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Data de publicação: 09/02/2023 - 11:33
The animation Amazon without mining, which has been a huge success and attracting many viewers since its debut in October 2022, now has another version to reach different audiences abroad. Now, VideoSaúde Distribuidora Fiocruz, in partnership with a research group from the Polytechnic School of Health Joaquim Venâncio (EPSJV/Fiocruz) and the National School of Public Health (Ensp/Fiocruz), provides a version of the production with...
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Data de publicação: 07/02/2023 - 16:57
Fiocruz brings from February 13th to 15th to Rio de Janeiro the annual meeting of the Global Community of Sustainable Technology and Innovation, G-STIC, which for the first time will be held in the Americas. Names such as Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Qu Dongyu, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), both online, and Nísia...
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Data de publicação: 06/02/2023 - 17:57
Researchers from the Center for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (SinBiose/CNPq) published this Thursday (2/2) the Trajectories database, in the journal Scientific Data, of the Nature group. The database brings together 36 environmental, socioeconomic, and epidemiological indicators for the period between 2000 and 2017 for all 772 municipalities in nine states of the Brazilian Legal Amazon. The data is available openly and free of charge for...
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