Data de publicação: 11/06/2018 - 10:35
Marilelle at Fiocruz inaugural class of 2018 school year, on March 8 (Photo: Peter Ilicciev)
“Police incursions in slums are for what and for whom?". This was how the city councilwoman and human rights defender Marielle Franco (PSOL-RJ), executed on March 14 in a still unsolved crime, expressed her indignation at the daily violence suffered by slum dwellers during a public act for peace and citizenship held in 2017, in...
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Data de publicação: 11/06/2018 - 10:15
Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that carry Wolbachia bacteria have the reduced ability to transmit Mayaro arbovirus. The finding is in an article published in the latest issue of the online scientific journal Scientific Reports, which integrates the Nature group and covers all areas of natural sciences. The study was conducted by a group of researchers from the René Rachou Institute (Fiocruz Minas), located in the city of Belo Horizonte, and...
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Data de publicação: 11/06/2018 - 09:56
From the left, Jeffrey Berthony, immunologist and researcher at Fiocruz Minas and George Washington (GWU), Flávia Ribeiro, infectious agent and researcher at the Research Center of Hospital das Clínicas, and David Diemert, infectious disease specialist and professor at GWU (Photo: Fiocruz Minas)
Researchers of the Hospital das Clínicas of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), George Washington...
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Data de publicação: 08/06/2018 - 15:12
The study of the use of the Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) to HIV, coordinated by the researcher Beatriz Grinsztejn, head of the Laboratory of Clinical Research in STD and AIDS of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases (INI/Fiocruz), was the subject matter of an editorial and article published in February in one of the most prestigious international scientific journals, The Lancet HIV. The editorial ¡PrEP Ya! Latin America wants...
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Data de publicação: 08/06/2018 - 14:58
A paradigm shift that allows the manager to make decisions based on clear and objective criteria. This is how Sérgio Rabelo, advisor of Vice Presidency of Environment, Healthcare and Promotion (VPAAPS/Fiocruz) referred to the Climate Vulnerability System (SisVuClima), presented at Closing Seminar of Population Vulnerability to Climate Change Indicators Project, held in Brasilia, on March 28. The project, developed since 2014, results from...
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Data de publicação: 08/06/2018 - 14:43
The mental health of Brazilian women can be impaired by prejudice due to skin color, both in the personal and group dimension, increasing up to 70% the chance of suffering common mental disorders (CMD). This was the conclusion of a study conducted by Maurício Barreto, researcher and coordinator of the Center for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (Cidacs) of Fiocruz Bahia, together with researchers from the Institute of Collective...
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Data de publicação: 08/06/2018 - 14:13
The strategic collaboration between the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and Fiocruz, the expanded concept of health, and the establishment of a Health Commission by PAHO to discuss the Alma Ata gaps were the main issues of the meeting between Carissa Etienne, PAHO Director General, and Nísia Trindade Lima, president of Fiocruz, on March 13, at Fiocruz Brasilia.
Trindade Lima pointed out that the Unified Health System (SUS) is...
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Data de publicação: 07/06/2018 - 13:46
President of Fiocruz, Nísia Trindade Lima, participated on April 20 in the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development held in Santiago, Chile. Organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Government of Mexico, the meeting brought together representatives from 28 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, including 35 non-governmental organizations,...
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Data de publicação: 06/06/2018 - 16:42
On April 19, Fiocruz and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) signed an international cooperation agreement aimed at compliance with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Signed by Fiocruz President, Nísia Trindade Lima, and ECLAC Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, in Santiago do Chile, where the Latin American and Caribbean Countries Forum on Sustainable Development was held, the document...
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Data de publicação: 24/05/2018 - 11:26
Explanation of the Nagoya Protocol on ABS and its implication for microbiology (English)
The U.S. Culture Collection Network (English)
Implementation of the Nagoya Protocol on ABS (English)
Access and Benefit-Sharing in Latin America and the Caribbean (English)
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Data de publicação: 24/05/2018 - 11:11
The new Brazilian legislation on access to the biodiversity (Law 13,123/15 and Decree 8772/16) (English)
The Scienci and Legislative Power in Brazil (Portuguese)
Feature in the Jounal of Science - New Biodiversity Law (Portuguese)
Fulfilling the requirements of the New Biodiversity Law (Portuguese)
Manual on the Biodiversity Law (Portuguese)
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Data de publicação: 24/05/2018 - 09:34
Since 2015, Brazil has a new legislation which provides for the use of Brazilian biodiversity by science and production chain. It is the Law 13.123, known as the Biodiversity Law. Its rules define, in the jargon of the area, "access to genetic resources, protection, access to associated traditional knowledge and benefit sharing for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity". The new legal framework was regulated by...
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Data de publicação: 26/03/2018 - 12:33
Dentist Mileni Romero performed community service at a health center for low-income people and worked in the care of political prisoners at a military hospital in Venezuela. At the end of 2016, constant coughing and weakness forced her to go to several physicians in search of a diagnosis, which was given in February 2017. Mileni had tuberculosis, and at a moment's notice, the physician became patient. "The medical treatment is very...
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Data de publicação: 26/03/2018 - 11:46
Researchers from the Carlos Chagas Institute (ICC/Fiocruz Paraná) developed an innovative technique that assists in the characterization of structures of homodimeric proteins - macromolecules composed of two identical subunits, which can make possible the development of new drugs, besides allowing a greater understanding of various diseases. The result will have immediate impact on the research of several national and international groups...
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Data de publicação: 23/03/2018 - 15:00
The Oswaldo Cruz Foundation has signed an international cooperation agreement with the non-profit organization Apoyonline, which promotes communication, exchange and professional development in the area of heritage preservation in the Americas and in Portuguese and Spanish speaking countries, and is headquartered in Maryland, in the United States.
The Memorandum of Understanding between the two institutions is valid for a period of five years...
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Data de publicação: 23/03/2018 - 14:50
The Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, through the Fiocruz Global Health Center, and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) held a meeting on December 14 at the Fiocruz Campus, in Rio de Janeiro, to evaluate a scientific partnership. The institutions consider developing collaborations in public health care. Areas considered to be priorities for future partnerships include the health of indigenous people, primary health care,...
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Data de publicação: 22/03/2018 - 16:49
Climate changes such as the destruction of ecosystems, deforestation and urbanization contribute to the increase of several infectious diseases in Brazil, such as pulmonary hantavirus syndrome, dengue fever, yellow fever, malaria, trypanosomiasis, leishmaniasis and leptospirosis, a new study found.
In a recently published article, researchers Alessandra Nava, from the Leônidas & Maria Deane Institute (ILMD/Fiocruz Amazonas), Juliana...
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Data de publicação: 22/03/2018 - 16:22
The decree that regulates the Legal Framework for Science, Technology and Innovation in Brazil was published at the beginning of February in Brasilia. The new rules seek to bring universities closer to companies, making research, scientific and technological development and innovation in the country more dynamic, as well as reducing the bureaucracy in investments for the area.
According to the Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology,...
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Data de publicação: 22/03/2018 - 15:47
The Oswaldo Cruz Foundation launched another important initiative to the fight against arbovirus: the course of clinical management of chikungunya in English and Spanish. Open and free, the course is available on the platform of the Virtual Campus for Public Health of the Pan American Health Organization (Paho) Registration is open until May 31.
This is an initiative of Fiocruz Mato Grosso do Sul and Federal University of Mato Grosso do...
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Data de publicação: 22/03/2018 - 15:30
One often overlooked dimension of the challenges posed by the current yellow fever outbreak affecting Brazil is the rapid circulation of inaccurate information through social media. Besides hampering the understanding of the real dimensions of the problem, messages spread through instant messengers and social media often contain false claims and create an incorrect sense of alarm.
For epidemiologist and infectologist Rivaldo Venâncio,...
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Data de publicação: 12/03/2018 - 12:04
The Proviosnal Act of August 23,2001, was the first legal framework to regulate access to Genetic Heritage (GH) and Associated Traditional Knowledge (ATK) in Brazil for pupose of scientific research, bioprospecting, and technological development.
Download the document of Brazilian Journal of Microbiology about this subject, published on 2018.
Documento/Arquivo
Data de publicação: 04/03/2018 - 14:41
The Post-2015 Development Agenda - is an initiative of the United Nations with a contribution by Fiocruz to promote the inclusion of health, linked with the economic, social, and environmental dimensions in the context of sustainable development. The Foundation studies the impact of mega-projects, biodiversity, climate changes, and basic sanitation and their effects on health and citizenship.
South American Institute for Health...
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Data de publicação: 26/02/2018 - 15:59
The Oswaldo Cruz Foundation signed on Monday (Feb 26) a Memorandum of Understanding with Shenzhen Third People's Hospital, Beijing Genomic Institute (BGI), Laboratory of Pathogenic Microbiology of the Institute of Immunological Microbiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and the telecommunications company ZTE, in Shenzen, China. The document establishes the foundations for a scientific cooperation agreement that will allow the...
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Data de publicação: 31/01/2018 - 12:18
At the dawn of 2018, political and health leaders must seize the growing momentum and opportunities to tackle the protracted challenges of access to medicines that undermines efforts to save lives and improve health as committed under the Agenda 2030 SDG by all UN member states.
Over half of the world’s population does not have access to essential health services, 3.5 billion people are excluded from getting essential medicines; they...
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