Data de publicação: 11/04/2024 - 10:02
In front of representatives from 24 countries, Fiocruz opened on 4/3, and hosted until 4/5, the Second Global Workshop for countries presenting Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs), part of a series of three meetings organized by the United Nations to draw up proposals to be taken to the UN High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) in July. This is the first time the workshop has been held in Latin America, and its opening was...
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Data de publicação: 03/04/2024 - 14:29
Fiocruz, through the Institute of Drug Technology (Farmanguinhos/Fiocruz) and the René Rachou Institute (IRR/Fiocruz Minas), has signed a partnership agreement for research, development and innovation (RD&I) with the French pharmaceutical company Servier. The aim is to enable research into cancer treatments using natural samples. The event was attended by the presidents of France, Emmanuel Macron, and of Fiocruz, Mario Moreira....
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Data de publicação: 29/05/2024 - 10:32
Adam Jackson, director of the UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), was at Fiocruz last Tuesday, May 21st, for the G20 Research and Innovation Working Group meeting, which will take place in Recife starting on May 22nd. Jackson came to learn about the Foundation's priorities, as well as to identify potential areas for cooperation in innovation and research.
Adam Jackson came to learn about the Foundation's...
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Data de publicação: 29/05/2024 - 15:49
Between May 13th and 17th, representatives from the Sergio Arouca National School of Public Health (ENSP/ Fiocruz), the Joaquim Venâncio Polytechnic School of Health (EPSJV/ Fiocruz), the Center for International Relations in Health (CRIS/ Fiocruz), and the Vice Presidency of Education, Information and Communication (VPEIC), with the support and involvement of the Brazilian Cooperation Agency (ABC), carried out a mission to Africa. The...
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Data de publicação: 16/05/2024 - 13:57
In this week dedicated to the donation of human milk, the series Healthier Together – A Path to a Better World, developed in consultation with the WHO Foundation and produced for them by BBC StoryWorks Commercial Productions and presented by Fiocruz, has one of its films dedicated to the Global Network of Human Milk Banks, an initiative that has the Brazilian Foundation involved in its creation and expansion. In mini-documentary style,...
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Data de publicação: 27/03/2024 - 14:05
The historic Fiocruz complex in Manguinhos, in Northern Rio de Janeiro, is a candidate for World Heritage status by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The institution is now part of the tentative list of sites that can become Cultural, Natural and Mixed World Heritage Sites, a primary and obligatory stage for any property to begin the process of recognition.
Inscription of the historical complex...
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Data de publicação: 23/05/2024 - 09:52
The international study group Global Burden of Diseases, whose team includes Fiocruz Pernambuco researcher Rafael Moreira, has published another article in the British scientific journal The Lancet, a comprehensive survey of global health loss, based on the analysis of data from 371 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories. The group checked information for the period between 2010-2021 to highlight trends in the burden of disease...
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Data de publicação: 29/05/2024 - 11:34
The water invaded municipalities in Rio Grande do Sul, turned the streets into rapids, flooded and swept away everything in its path. In the images published in Brazil and around the world, it could be seen the population stunned by the destruction. People and animals were swallowed up by the advancing rivers and tributaries, many were marooned and waited for uncertain help. As the water took a long time to recede, it was difficult for residents...
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Data de publicação: 17/05/2024 - 16:07
Published in the journal PLOS Global Public Health, a study by Fiocruz researchers pointed out that mortality trends in Brazil, even excluding deaths from COVID-19, increased between 2020 and 2022. The investigation into possible causes found that the average number of deaths from diabetes mellitus and hypertension was higher than the global rates, when comparing mortality data between 2015 and 2019 and 2020 and 2022.
The study was...
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Data de publicação: 28/05/2024 - 16:30
Between May 13th and 16th, the 1st Congress of Human Milk Banks of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP) took place in Luanda, Angola. The event was organized by the governments of Brazil and Angola, in partnership with the CPLP. With the central topic Human Milk Banks: Food and Nutritional Security Strategy for Newborns at Risk and Infants, the Congress promoted the exchange of experiences and knowledge on breastfeeding and...
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Data de publicação: 27/05/2024 - 14:48
Fiocruz launched its new brand last Friday (24/5). The launch, which is part of the celebrations of the Foundation's 124th anniversary, is the result of eight years of work that mobilized designers, journalists and other professionals, which generated dozens of meetings and debates, passed through various internal bodies and, finally, was approved by the institution's Deliberative Council (CD, in the Portuguese acronym) on March 22. The...
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Data de publicação: 17/05/2024 - 08:58
To consider a newborn healthy, it is checked the height, weight and gestational age it reached before birth. However, these parameters can be affected by the presence of other factors during pregnancy. Now, a new study by a research team from the Center for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (Cidacs/Fiocruz Bahia) shows that the occurrence of gestational syphilis also affects the health of newborns and increases the likelihood that the...
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Data de publicação: 17/05/2024 - 09:19
Inaugurated this Friday (5/17), the Pasteur Fiocruz Center on Immunology and Immunotherapy, located at Fiocruz Ceará, brings together scientists from the Institut Pasteur and Fiocruz, two members of the Pasteur Network, to develop an integrative approach towards immunotherapies applied to both infectious and non-communicable diseases. This scientific cooperation aims to accelerate research in immunology and immunotherapy at regional,...
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Data de publicação: 03/04/2024 - 16:03
The Institute of Technology on Immunobiologicals (Bio-Manguinhos/Fiocruz) and the pharmaceutical company Sanofi signed a Memorandum of Understanding last Wednesday (3/27) that reaffirms their mutual interest in establishing further collaborations in the field of immunization. In January this year, the institutions signed a technology transfer agreement for the domestic production of the acellular hexavalent vaccine. The immunizer offers...
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Data de publicação: 01/04/2024 - 14:36
Last week, on a trip to China, Fiocruz was able to strengthen partnerships and prospect future cooperation in health technology and innovation, especially in the areas of vaccines, biologicals and advanced therapies. The Foundation's vice president for Health Production and Innovation, Marco Krieger, and the director of the Immunobiological Technology Institute (Bio-Manguinhos), Maurício Zuma, were in the Asian country to visit health...
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Data de publicação: 14/05/2024 - 16:20
On Thursday (5/2), Fiocruz received a delegation from the Global Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence of the World Health Organization (WHO) for a meeting on the current stage and next steps of the bilateral cooperation signed between the institutions last year. The Vice President of Research and Biological Collections (VPPCB/Fiocruz), Maria de Lourdes Oliveira, received the delegation, led by the Unit Head of Insights and Analytics (IAA...
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Data de publicação: 27/03/2024 - 11:25
With international partners, Fiocruz has launched a research project that aims to contribute to the health of populations and ecosystems in the Amazon and East Africa in the face of climate change and environmental degradation. The aim is to establish information systems to support local communities in border areas in assessing the impacts of environmental transformations on their well-being and in developing actions to prevent, adapt to and...
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Data de publicação: 26/03/2024 - 15:34
A survey carried out by Fiocruz/Unifase's Observatory of Children's Health (Observa Infância) reveals that dengue fever has hit children up to the age of 5 hardest in 2024. The analysis shows that adolescents between the ages of 10 and 14 have the highest number of cases recorded this year, while children under the age of 5 have the highest fatality rates, followed by those between the ages of 5 and 9. Observa Infância...
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Data de publicação: 07/05/2024 - 17:09
The Wolbachia Method, patented by the World Mosquito Program (WMP) and conducted in Brazil by Fiocruz, with funding from the Ministry of Health, is experiencing a moment of expansion in the country: the program in Joinville (SC), Foz do Iguaçu (PR) and Londrina (PR) enters a new phase with community engagement work, and the biofactory in Rio de Janeiro receives state-of-the-art equipment to scale up its production of Wolbito mosquitoes....
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Data de publicação: 26/03/2024 - 09:20
Fiocruz, a foundation from the Brazilian government's Ministry of Health, and Caring Cross, a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to accelerating the development of advanced medicines and enabling access to advanced medicinal cures for all patients, everywhere, today announced a collaboration to develop local manufacturing of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell and stem cell gene therapies for oncology, infectious, and genetic...
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Data de publicação: 22/03/2024 - 16:38
The constant heat waves caused by climate change, combined with incomplete urbanization and the large circulation of people in certain areas, are influencing the spread of the dengue fever into the hinterlands of the country. This is revealed by the study Climate change, thermal anomalies, and the recent progression of dengue in Brazil, published on Nature's Scientific Reports portal. The text was written by researcher Christovam Barcellos,...
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Data de publicação: 03/05/2024 - 14:38
The president of Fiocruz, Mario Moreira, visited Spain and Portugal between April 18th and 24th, seeking to deepen institutional relations in areas considered strategic with Fiocruz's traditional partners. The visits to the two countries took place shortly after Fiocruz's mission to the United States.
Visit of the Fiocruz delegation to the Nova Medical School campus, in Lisbon (photo: publicity)
"The meetings in Spain and...
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Data de publicação: 30/04/2024 - 16:39
President of Fiocruz, Mario Moreira led a mission to the United States between April 15 and 17 seeking to strengthen collaborative ties and promote significant advances with partners in priority areas for the institution. Also taking part in the mission were the vice president of Health Production and Innovation, Marco Aurélio Krieger, the director of the Immunobiological Technology Institute (Bio-Manguinhos/Fiocruz), Maurício Zuma...
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Data de publicação: 17/05/2024 - 08:49
The president of Fiocruz, Mario Moreira, took part in the signing ceremony of the new program document of the Brazil-UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund) Partnership for the Promotion of Trilateral South-South Cooperation (2024-2028) last Thursday afternoon (5/9). The document was put together in a participatory way, with the support of the Brazilian cooperating institutions involved in the initiative and the common themes of UNFPA and the...
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Data de publicação: 20/03/2024 - 15:58
In an opinion article – Heat waves, climate crisis and adaptation challenges in the global south metropolises –, published on March 8 in the international open access publisher PLOS, researcher Christovam Barcellos, from Fiocruz, warns of the challenges faced in adapting the global south metropolises to climate change, especially heat waves, pointing out that, in these areas, issues such as the supply of drinking water, electricity...
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