Data de publicação: 30/09/2021 - 14:08
By means of its Immunobiological Technology Institute (Bio-Manguinhos), last Monday (September 27th) Fiocruz ended the production of the first batches called pre-validation batches of the national Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) for the COVID-19 vaccine. The ingredient will now be submitted to quality control tests at the institution to then be sent to the final processing phase of the vaccine. The first pre-validation batch, which was...
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Data de publicação: 21/09/2021 - 15:20
Researcher Jorge Bermudez, chief of the Department of Medicines Policy and Pharmaceutical Services at the Sergio Arouca National School of Public Health (ENSP/Fiocruz, in the Portuguese acronym), is now a member of the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) created to advise the World Health Organization (WHO) in scientific, technical and strategic issues related to COVID-19 Technology Access Pool (C-TAP). C-TAP is a solidarity mechanism launched...
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Data de publicação: 02/09/2021 - 17:05
A study conducted by Brazilian researchers shows how age influences the effectiveness of the two main immunizers used in the country against COVID-19. Submitted as a preprint in MedRxiv, the study Influence of age on effectiveness and duration of protection in the Oxford/AstraZeneca and CoronaVac vaccines involved more than 75 million immunized people, becoming the largest study conducted with the two immunizers and may serve as a basis for...
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Data de publicação: 04/10/2021 - 10:54
The COVID-19 pandemic was one of the main subjects discussed at two meetings that drew the attention of the entire world and of the region last week. While chiefs of state and of government debated the effects of the disease at the 76th General Assembly of the United Nations, at the 59th Board of Directors and 73rd Session of the Regional Committee of the World Health Organization (WHO) for the Americas, organized by the Pan-American Health...
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Data de publicação: 25/06/2021 - 10:54
A study developed in partnership between Fiocruz Pernambuco, the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco (UFRPE) and the Federal Institute of Paraíba (IFPB) carried out an investigation on the evolution over time of the daily numbers of deaths by COVID-19, taking into account the scenario in 43 countries. Using physical approaches and information theory techniques, the researchers achieved results that give scientific evidence as for the...
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Data de publicação: 12/07/2021 - 12:37
A diagnostic kit to detect the new coronavirus that can be employed directly by basic health units, providing a result in up to 45 minutes, at a low cost and with high accuracy. The innovation, which may help fight COVID-19, has had its patent deposited after a year of work by researchers of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC/Fiocruz), the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), and the Federal Institute of Santa Catarina (IFSC), in a...
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Data de publicação: 23/06/2021 - 09:56
Fiocruz was elected a member of the Joint Coordinating Board of the WHO’s Special Program for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR). The election took place last Thursday (June 17), during the Council’s 44th meeting, giving the Foundation a mandate spanning from January 1st, 2022, to December 31st, 2025.
“This acknowledgment of Fiocruz is a momentous event. Together with the Council, the Foundation will seek to go...
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Data de publicação: 26/07/2021 - 17:58
Fiocruz president, Nísia Trindade Lima, will be receiving the degree of Knight of Legion of Honor, France’s order of merit (Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur), as an acknowledgment of her career in the world of science and health, in particular in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
The ambassador of France, Brigitte Collet, and president Nísia Trindade at the meeting where they discussed health...
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Data de publicação: 28/06/2021 - 17:34
Over the past week, the four central units of large processing of molecular tests (RT-PCR) for Covid-19 coordinated by the Ministry of Health, with the support of Fiocruz, achieved the equivalent of 7 million samples processed, which represents about 40% of all testing done in the public system. In addition to processing the tests, Fiocruz is also responsible for their production, having already concluded its committment, signed in 2020 with the...
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Data de publicação: 01/07/2021 - 10:57
In 2020, research operations did not take place in Antarctica due to the restrictions enforced by the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, the current public health crisis has shown the importance of knowledge in health, of surveillance, and of an integration of human, environmental, and animal health, in order to respond to present and future challenges. For this reason, teams are preparing for new research missions this year and are already...
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Data de publicação: 26/07/2021 - 19:07
The largest set of favelas in Rio de Janeiro, with about 140,000 inhabitants, Maré will be the home of a study led by Fiocruz on the impact of COVID-19 vaccination on its population. The initiative is a collaboration between the Networks of Maré, Rio de Janeiro’s City Hall by means of the Municipal Secretariat of Health, and Fiocruz. Taking into account the peculiarities in territories that include favelas and peripheral...
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Data de publicação: 02/12/2016 - 10:28
Nagoya Protocol: Reference Documents
The Nagoya Protocol is the international agreement that regulates the Access and Benefit Sharing. That is, it establishes guidelines for commercial relations between the provider country of the genetic resources and the user country, covering aspects such as royalty payments, establishment of joint ventures, the right to technology transfer and training.
The protocol was created by the Conference of the...
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Data de publicação: 16/07/2021 - 18:24
Data from Relatório Luz 2021 show that Brazil did not make any progress in the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) of United Nations’ 2030 Agenda. The 5th edition of the report was published on Monday (July 12th), in a public meeting of the Chamber of Deputies.
The document is prepared by the Civil Society Working Group, which consists of 57 organizations and boards from all over the country. One hundred and six...
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Data de publicação: 16/07/2021 - 13:42
The dispersion of diseases in the Amazon is directly related to the agricultural development trajectory of municipalities and the loss of biodiversity. Malaria is prevalent in municipalities with an agro-extractivist profile and with forest cover, that is, half of the Amazon territory. Dengue and chikungunya occur more frequently in municipalities of recent urban expansion, such as on the southern edge of the Amazon in transition to the Cerrado...
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Data de publicação: 30/06/2021 - 13:02
A recently published study, with the participation of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation - Fiocruz, suggests that the Delta variant of the new coronavirus, first detected in India, may increase the risk of reinfection. The research shows that the serum of people previously infected by other strains is less powerful against this viral variant. The problem is markedly observed among individuals previously infected by the Gamma variant, originally...
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Data de publicação: 07/07/2021 - 10:54
Economy or health? This false dichotomy used as an argument against pandemic control measures in Brazil has lost yet another nuance. If decision-makers were guided by ideal information that allowed them to adopt social distancing measures at the right moment and in the right dose, more lives could be saved, and the economic impact could be reduced during the pandemic. To make this possible, a predictive control system was developed within the...
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Data de publicação: 28/06/2021 - 10:34
Cooperation between the so-called Global South countries took a hard hit during the COVID-19 pandemic, suffering backtracks due to political and ideological issues in the past few years, but it has the potential to help these nations overcome the public health crisis with a sustainable recovery. These were some of the reflections raised during the South-South Cooperation seminar, diplomacy in health and pandemic that the Fiocruz Global Heath...
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Data de publicação: 29/07/2021 - 11:19
Three projects led by Fiocruz researchers are among the ten selected worldwide by the Grand Challenges ICODA COVID-19 Data Science, an initiative that supports health data projects to respond more accurately to the pandemic and possible challenges in the future. With support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Minderoo Foundation, and Microsoft's AI for Health program, they will receive a fund of US$100,000 for their...
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Data de publicação: 17/08/2021 - 09:52
Throughout history, there are many records of disasters that decimated entire populations, cities, states and civilizations. None of those had the same level that the climate change crisis foresees. UN’s secretary-general, António Guterres, stated that the report of Group I of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) is “a code red for humanity”. The report contained compelling evidence that the gas emissions...
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Data de publicação: 12/08/2021 - 10:37
Providing scientific knowledge about the different aspects of the Triatominae, the insects that spread Chagas disease, also known as kissing bugs, is the goal of the book Triatominae: the biology of Chagas disease vectors. The book has 20 chapters about natural history and the evolution of the subfamily, its taxonomy, physiology, interaction with parasites, control of the insect, and its resistance to pesticides, among other topics.
Arranged...
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Data de publicação: 19/05/2021 - 12:35
A study coordinated by the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) is helping to understand why some critically ill patients submitted to mechanical ventilation manage to leave the ICU, while others do not survive. The research indicates that the presence of the human endogenous retrovirus K (HERV-K) is associated not only with worsening disease but also with early mortality.
From March to December 2020, the study Human endogenous retrovirus K...
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Data de publicação: 02/06/2021 - 17:37
International education webinar brings a circle of conversations with Brazilian researchers and their experiences in Germany and a German researcher experiencing our research institutions.
In a new edition of the PrInt Fiocruz-Capes International Seminar, the Brazil-Germany International Education Initiative organizes an online event to be held on June 8, 2021 at 10:00 am.
Seeking to stimulate the interest in scientific and cultural...
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Data de publicação: 31/05/2021 - 09:35
The past few years have been frustrating for the international climate change agenda. The United Nations Convention on Climate Change (COP25) took place in 2019 in Madrid, but it was far from peaceful, after its cancellation in Brazil and in Chile. Many issues were left to be solved the following year, but in 2020, for the first time, the Convention did not happen, because of the pandemic. There is much catching up to be done and high...
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