Data de publicação: 12/03/2024 - 11:53
The president of Fiocruz, Mario Moreira, and the Spanish ambassador to Brazil, Mar Fernández-Palacios Carmona, signed, last Wednesday (3/6), a memorandum of understanding between the Foundation and the Carlos III Health Institute. The agreement was signed in the presence of president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and minister Nísia Trindade Lima as part of a state visit by Spanish president Pedro Sánchez....
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Data de publicação: 05/03/2024 - 16:07
The Institute of Drug Technology (Farmanguinhos/Fiocruz) announced in 2/28 a partnership agreement with the Brazilian unit of the German pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim in Rio de Janeiro. This is the first step towards submitting and obtaining registration for a generic product of Jardiance®, empagliflozin 10 mg and 25 mg, with the Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency (Anvisa). The drug is indicated for the treatment of adults with...
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Data de publicação: 26/02/2024 - 14:21
Since the beginning of the year, infections caused by the Aedes aegypt mosquito, such as dengue and chikungunya, have been on the rise. In recent weeks, Acre, Minas Gerais, Goiás and the Federal District have declared a state of emergency following an increase in the number of dengue cases, requiring extra care with the mosquito. Other cities are seeing the numbers rise not only for this disease, but also for chikungunya. The State of S...
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Data de publicação: 23/02/2024 - 15:01
The suicide rate among young people grew by 6% a year in Brazil between 2011 and 2022. In turn, notification rates for self-injuries in the 10-24 age group increased by 29% every year in the same period. The figure was higher compared to the general population, whose suicide rate grew by an average of 3.7% a year and self-injury by 21% a year over the same period. These results were found in the analysis of a set of nearly 1 million data points...
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Data de publicação: 20/02/2024 - 15:57
The production of vaccines and diagnostic kits and the use of Wolbachia mosquitoes on a large scale were topics that led to the visit of the Nigerian and Indonesian Health ministers to Fiocruz on 2/8. With different agendas, they visited the Manguinhos Campus in Rio de Janeiro at different times and took part in meetings with members of the Foundation's units.
The similarities in health challenges between countries and the process of...
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Data de publicação: 19/01/2024 - 15:16
Thousands of people every year are affected by outbreaks of infectious diseases. Moreover, according to European Commission documents, the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed that the current international surveillance and warning system for infectious diseases does not work fast enough when faced with a rapidly dispersed respiratory pathogen. In this context, health authorities and agencies from different countries recognize that quicker detection...
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Data de publicação: 19/01/2024 - 11:47
Seven new species of helminths, popularly known as worms, have been discovered through a study conducted by the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC/Fiocruz) and the State University of Maranhão (UEMA). The parasites were found in fish collected in the States of Acre, Maranhão and Minas Gerais. The findings were published in the journal Parasite and in the Revista Brasileira de Parasitologia Veterinária (Brazilian Journal of...
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Data de publicação: 28/12/2023 - 09:40
The Institute of Drug Technology (Farmanguinhos/Fiocruz) has signed a technology transfer agreement for the production of the medicine tofacitinib citrate, a generic clone of Xeljanz®. The partnership was signed with Pfizer Brazil on Wednesday (12/20), in Rio de Janeiro. The aim is to strengthen national production and increase public access to the treatment of immune-mediated inflammatory diseases, i.e. those triggered by imbalances in the...
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Data de publicação: 27/12/2023 - 12:22
COVID-19 has exposed socio-economic and healthcare inequalities in Brazil, as well as the importance and weaknesses of the SUS, pointing to the need to reverse divestment in the universal public health system, a fundamental policy for reducing inequalities in the country. This is the conclusion of the article COVID-19 inpatient mortality in Brazil from 2020 to 2022: a cross-sectional overview study based on secondary data, authored by...
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Data de publicação: 27/12/2023 - 12:07
With the arrival of winter in the Amazon, there is growing concern about the diseases transmitted by Aedes aegypti, known as arboviruses. Dengue, zika and chikungunya are the most common diseases in the Amazon region, but there are also other less well-known diseases, such as the oropouche and mayaro viruses (the latter which is very common in hard-to-reach places and forest areas, with the Haemagogus janthinomys mosquito as the main vector of...
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Data de publicação: 14/12/2023 - 15:38
On Thursday (12/7), Brazilian Health minister, Nísia Trindade Lima, signed a joint declaration of intent with Fiocruz's president, Mario Moreira, and the director of the Butantan Institute, Espes Kallás, to establish partnerships aimed at accelerating the development of technological platforms and local production. The signing took place during the meeting of the Executive Group of the Health Economic-Industrial Complex (Geceis...
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Data de publicação: 14/12/2023 - 15:13
Fiocruz's Antarctica Program is entering a new phase. Fioantar's proposal approved on Thursday (12/7) in a request for proposals for the next four years includes an expansion of collection points, an increase in the number of participating Foundation laboratories, a different working methodology, as well as national and international partnerships. As a result, coordinator Luciana Trilles, researcher at the Mycology Laboratory at the...
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Data de publicação: 12/12/2023 - 11:35
In yet another step in the history of the partnership between Angola and Fiocruz, the Foundation received, on 11/27, a delegation from the Angolan Ministry of Health to continue planning cooperation actions between the institutions, with a focus on training health professionals. The visit took place two weeks after a delegation from Fiocruz visited the African country on a prospecting mission for the Brazilian Ministry of Health (MS). The trips...
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Data de publicação: 05/12/2023 - 16:48
The president of Fiocruz, Mario Moreira, and the Chilean Minister of Health, Ximena Aguilera, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Wednesday (11/28) which paves the way for cooperation in education, research and development, as well as communication, information, management and policies in the field of health in general. Accompanied by the head of the Office of Cooperation and International Affairs, Raquel Child Goldenberg, and the...
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Data de publicação: 05/12/2023 - 16:21
The G20 (Group of Twenty) is an international forum comprising the countries with the largest economies in the world, which currently plays a central role in coordinating economic policies with a global impact and which aims, at least rhetorically, to promote inclusive growth, reduce inequalities and respond to global challenges. Since its creation in 1999, the group has played a key role in promoting cooperation and finding joint...
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Data de publicação: 30/11/2023 - 11:55
After nine years of effort, experts have completed the development of a standardized and validated methodology for the molecular diagnosis of cutaneous leishmaniasis in the Americas. Advances in diagnosis could help control the disease, which is considered neglected by the World Health Organization (WHO). The infection causes sores on the skin, damaging patients' quality of life both due to the impact of the lesions and the stigma. The...
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Data de publicação: 24/11/2023 - 12:20
This Friday (11/17), Fiocruz, through the Immunobiological Technology Institute (Bio-Manguinhos/Fiocruz) signed a Term of Commitment with the National Administration of Laboratories and Institutes of Health Dr. Carlos Malbrán (Anlis), aimed at enabling the Argentine institution to produce and supply the yellow fever vaccine in its country. The signing took place after the meeting of Mercosur health ministers at Itamaraty, in Brasí...
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Data de publicação: 14/11/2023 - 11:16
For a week, French was the second most spoken language at Fiocruz. A delegation from the Sorbonne University visited the Foundation from the 23rd to the 27th of october to discuss prospects for collaboration. In addition to the meetings between the directors, a five-day seminar promoted scientific sessions that brought researchers from both sides closer together. Covering subjects ranging from neuromuscular diseases to immunotherapy with CAR-T...
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Data de publicação: 13/11/2023 - 16:17
The Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases (INI/Fiocruz) is open for applications for the selection process of the 5th International Refresher Course in Immunohistochemistry, Molecular Pathology and Histopathology for the Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases, held in partnership with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC/USA). The target audience is undergraduate healthcare professionals, postgraduate students and...
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Data de publicação: 13/11/2023 - 13:33
One of the most successful examples of Fiocruz's cooperation with Portuguese-speaking countries in Africa, Mozambique should see these ties grow even closer as a result of the visit of its minister of Health, Armindo Daniel Tiago, to the Manguinhos Campus last Monday (11/6). Accompanied by a delegation of eight members from different Mozambican institutions, the minister spoke with president Mario Moreira and representatives from at least...
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Data de publicação: 08/11/2023 - 16:49
The Leônidas & Maria Deane Institute (Fiocruz Amazônia), the Rede Unida Association and Rede Unida Italy are leading a national movement in Brazil to recognize indigenous medicine as a health system that has been serving and healing indigenous peoples for millennia. The different indigenous medicines are still alive and active in different Brazilian territories, without much support from public policies. The proposal of the...
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Data de publicação: 20/10/2023 - 10:35
With 42 new students enrolled, Fiocruz and Mozambique launch a large institutional consortium called the Educational Program in Health Systems (SIS-Saúde Brazil/Mozambique). The event took place in Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, and was attended, physically and remotely, by authorities and representatives from both countries. At the opening of the meeting, the president of Fiocruz, Mario Moreira, stated that this relationship is based...
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Data de publicação: 19/10/2023 - 14:41
Nearly 50 years ago, Alain Mérieux, now president of the Mérieux Foundation, came to Fiocruz with the mission of combating the meningitis epidemic that was ravaging Brazil. His return to the Manguinhos Campus last Monday (10/9) to sign a cooperation protocol between the two institutions and the Acre State Hospital Foundation (Fundhacre) was full of memories, but also of prospects for future actions, at a time when the world is...
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Data de publicação: 29/09/2023 - 10:02
Researchers from Fiocruz and Harvard University carried out the first national study assessing suicide among indigenous and non-indigenous people in Brazil. The study assessed suicide rates during the period from 2000 to 2020 and showed a disproportionately higher risk in indigenous people, especially those aged 10-24. The North and Central-West were the regions with the highest suicide risk, especially states such as Amazonas and Mato Grosso do...
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Data de publicação: 28/09/2023 - 11:12
Fiocruz will be one of the hosts of the 25th Annual General Meeting of the Developing Countries Vaccine Manufacturers Network (DCVMN), which will take place in the city of São Paulo in 2024. Together with the Institute of Technology in Immunobiologicals (Bio-Manguinhos/Fiocruz), the Butantan Institute, a body linked to the São Paulo State Health Department (SES), will also be hosting the event, which brings together vaccine...
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