Data de publicação: 21/08/2020 - 11:19
Through its Immunobiological Technology Institute in (Bio-Manguinhos/Fiocruz), the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation is now supplying trastuzumab to the Ministry of Health (MoH), which provides it to cancer patients free of cost through the Brazilian Public Health System (SUSm in the Portuguese acronym). This is another cancer drug supplied by Bio-Manguinhos/Fiocruz, which introduced this line to its portfolio in 2020 (in addition to rituximab, for...
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Data de publicação: 21/08/2020 - 10:39
An ecological analysis on a populational basis, using data obtained from the Reportable Diseases Information System (Sinan, in the Portuguese acronym), of the Ministry of Health, was carried out with the goal of identifying an epidemiological profile of the transmission of acute Chagas disease in Brazil. Chagas disease is caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, transmitted by an insect called kissing bug, and is present in 21 countries in...
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Data de publicação: 19/08/2020 - 17:05
Fiocruz President, Nísia Trindade Lima, is the co-chair of the Group on Economic Response and Recovery of the initiative created by research funding agencies to develop a United Nations Research Roadmap for the Recovery of Covid-19. The work was commissioned by the United Nations Deputy Secretary-General, Amina Mohammed, and will be a complementary document to the UN Framework for the immediate socio-economic response to COVID-19.
The...
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Data de publicação: 17/08/2020 - 12:59
On August 4, the first debate of a cycle called Youths in Brazil: Emerging Dialogues for Health was broadcast live on the YouTube channel of Agenda Jovem Fiocruz. Marked by multidisciplinarity, the online program brings together activists, researchers from Fiocruz and other institutions, representatives of the Legislative, international agencies, universities, and project coordinators, to discuss themes regarding the health...
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Data de publicação: 17/08/2020 - 12:13
Since the confirmation of the first cases of Covid-19, Fiocruz, an institution linked to the Ministry of Health, has been working to provide responses in different areas. After developing molecular tests to detect the disease and progressively increasing their production scale, the Foundation now begins the operation of one more Support Unit to the Diagnostic of Covid-19 (click here for a virtual tour of the Unit). The initiative is...
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Data de publicação: 06/08/2020 - 17:07
The Fiocruz Global Health Center (Cris/Fiocruz), the National School of Public Health (Ensp/Fiocruz), the Network of Public Health Schools in Latin America (Resp-AL), the Latin American Alliance for Global Health (Alasag), the Argentine Network of Public Health Schools and the International Network of Health Technicians (Rets), which usually act in partnership, promoted the international seminar Vaccines and medicines for Covid-19 as global...
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Data de publicação: 06/08/2020 - 12:28
Covid-19 has shown Brazil’s fragility in promoting an industrial policy in the health area: facing the pandemic involves prevention, services preparation, drugs, equipment, diagnostic tests, and the future vaccine. When one of these parts fails the entire strategy to contain the disease’s expansion will be jeopardized. This is Carlos Gadelha’s evaluation, a researcher and coordinator of Prospection Actions at Fiocruz. “...
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Data de publicação: 05/08/2020 - 16:23
Professors and researchers may apply for the scholarships under the Institutional Internationalization Program - PrInt Fiocruz-Capes. The selection for PhDs with Experience Abroad is now reopened after a postponement due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The call aims to attract researchers with experience in a foreign country to work at Fiocruz, whose training and professional experience represent an innovative contribution to the Fiocruz Graduate...
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Data de publicação: 04/08/2020 - 10:54
Many of us have greatly been affected by Covid-19 - from loss of jobs, closure of schools, travel bans, movement restriction and much more. However, some groups of people have been more affected other than others, and the more vulnerable in the community, societies and groups have borne the greatest brunt. The disease has affected men, women and people of other genders differently.
Various questions and concerns were raised during a...
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Data de publicação: 03/08/2020 - 13:49
Researchers from the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation develop a plan to support the fight against Covid-19 among indigenous peoples. One of the goals is to intensify surveillance and improve information about the impacts of the pandemic on these populations, through six lines of action. The initiative mobilized different units and vice-presidencies and was highlighted by the president of Fiocruz, Nísia Trindade Lima. “This is a joint action...
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Data de publicação: 30/07/2020 - 19:03
In partnership with an international research group, Fiocruz has obtained funding to conduct real-time analyses of gender dynamics during the Covid-19 pandemic. The research will be made possible through a $1.6 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to Simon Fraiser University (Canada), which is passing on some of the resources to other institutions to include more countries in this analysis. Ahead of the study, researcher...
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Data de publicação: 30/07/2020 - 17:31
Chikungunya is a disease caused by a virus, which is transmitted through the bite of the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which may cause symptoms like fever, skin rashes and body pain. According to the Ministry of Health, from January to June this year, more than 48,300 probable cases of the disease were reported in Brazil. The disease is mainly concentrated in the North-Eastern region, which presented the greatest incidence rates, with 48.3 cases per...
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Data de publicação: 28/07/2020 - 11:00
Data from Fiocruz InfoGripe show that many states are still climbing up the first wave of new weekly cases of Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI). This is the ongoing situation in all states of the Southern region, in addition to Sergipe and Mato Grosso do Sul. Other states are already showing signs of the beginning of the so-called “second wave”. The analysis refers to Epidemiological Week 29 (between 12 and 18 July...
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Data de publicação: 27/07/2020 - 17:33
A study led by the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC/Fiocruz) and by the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF), in collaboration with hospitals and research centers in Rio de Janeiro, provides new information that helps understand one of the most severe and frequent complications observed in Covid-19 patients hospitalized in intensive care units (ICUs). Published in “Blood”, the main international scientific journal in the area of...
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Data de publicação: 27/07/2020 - 16:59
Going back to school may represent an extra risk for more than 9.3 million Brazilians (4.4% of the overall population) who are elderly or adults (18 years and up) with chronic health conditions and at risk for Covid-19 infection. This is due to the fact that they live in the same household as children and teenagers of school age (3 to 17 years old). The number of people that will be exposed to the new coronavirus was calculated through a Fiocruz...
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Data de publicação: 15/07/2020 - 11:30
Originally published at Reports in Public Health
In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has plunged nearly the entire planet into a health and humanitarian crisis, testing the human species in various dimensions. So many doubts raise the following question: is COVID-19 an inevitable phenomenon, given the relationship humans have with the various ecosystems and the other animal and plant species? Or in a simplified approach, is COVID-19 the episodic (...
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Data de publicação: 14/07/2020 - 12:13
Fiocruz president, Nísia Trindade Lima, is one of the members of the Lancet Covid-19 Commission. Led by American economist Jeffrey Sachs, the commission is an interdisciplinary initiative that includes leaders in health sciences, business, finances, and public policies, to formulate recommendations to overcome the challenges brought by the pandemic.
“The Commission was created to help speed up global, equitable, and long...
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Data de publicação: 14/07/2020 - 11:56
With the goal of better understanding the beginning of the novel coronavirus pandemic in Brazil, researchers of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) have carried out a wide genetic study involving almost a hundred samples from patients from all Brazilian regions, infected by the SARS-CoV-2 virus in the early moments of the pandemic in national territory.
The study was led by specialists of the Respiratory Viruses and Measles Laboratory,...
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Data de publicação: 14/07/2020 - 11:15
Researchers of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC/Fiocruz) have identified a new strain of the influenza virus in a patient in the city of Ibiporã, in the southern state of Paraná. Analysis have pointed to the presence of the influenza virus A(H1N2)v, which causes infection in pigs. The case was reported to the Ministry of Health, which then notified the World Health Organization (WHO), according to the international health regulation...
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Data de publicação: 14/07/2020 - 10:29
The international clinical trial HPTN 083 has proven that PrEP (HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis) containing CAB-LA (long-acting injectable Cabotegravir) used every eight weeks yielded efficacy superior to Truvada in the prevention of infection by the virus. “This is an unprecedented success for the field of HIV prevention. PrEP with CAB-LA is a new and powerful strategy that can really make a difference in controlling the HIV/Aids epidemic,...
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Data de publicação: 13/07/2020 - 17:18
Deaths in the city of Rio de Janeiro have increased by 64% in ths months of April and May 2020, when compared to the average in this same period in the last 3 years. In addition, a detailed analysis of the records shows a disturbing figure: deaths out of hospitals (both in health units, clinics, and other basic healthcare venues and at home) have practically doubled. This may be an indicator that, early in the epidemic, the city’s hospital...
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Data de publicação: 13/07/2020 - 15:48
Three lineages of the novel coronavirus have been introduced in the state of Amazonas, according to the study run by the Leônidas & Maria Deane Institute (ILMD/Fiocruz Amazônia), which investigated samples from the municipalities of Manacapuru, Autazes, Careiro, and Manaquiri (in the metropolitan region), Santa Isabel do Rio Negro (Rio Negro), Tabatinga, and Santo Antônio do Içá (in the Alto Solimões...
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Data de publicação: 13/07/2020 - 15:32
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has approved the creation of the Oswaldo Cruz Chair of Science, Health and Culture. The welcoming of the proposal presented by Casa de Oswaldo Cruz (COC/Fiocruz) in April 2019 and now approved by the agency is proof of the acknowledgement, by the United Nations agency, of the importance of the area of biomedical and health sciences, and brings with it opportunities for the...
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Data de publicação: 10/07/2020 - 15:19
Last week (July 1 and 2), the World Health Organization (WHO) hosted the second Global Research and Innovation Forum for Covid-19, with the participation of scientists of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz). The Forum, that took place online, had the goal of updating what is currently known about the disease and what are the gaps, where research must invest. The final goal is to speed up the development of knowledge on the subject.
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