Data de publicação: 27/09/2023 - 12:05
The National Immunization Program (PNI), one of the great achievements of Brazilian public health and one of the biggest initiatives of its kind in the world, turned 50 this Monday (9/18). Fiocruz, which supplies a significant portion of the vaccines used in PNI campaigns, has been an important part of this success story since the beginning of the program. The Foundation, in addition to producing immunizing agents, collaborates in the...
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Data de publicação: 27/09/2023 - 10:52
A megastructure for studies on the interaction between health and climate, considering the Brazilian continental territory and the vast diversity of climate and ecosystems, with socioeconomic, geographic, and modeling data working together to answer unprecedented scientific questions. This is the great promise of the Cidacs Clima – Climate, Environmental and Health Data Platform project, which was launched on Thursday (9/21) at the...
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Data de publicação: 27/09/2023 - 09:59
Researchers from Fiocruz Bahia carried out a study to evaluate the safety of COVID-19 vaccines using an inactivated virus platform (CoronaVac) and mRNA (Pfizer) during pregnancy, observing whether immunization could be associated with problems during the birth of the baby and neonatal mortality. The study showed that vaccination against COVID-19 in all trimesters of pregnancy, regardless of the type of vaccine, is safe and does not increase the...
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Data de publicação: 18/09/2023 - 11:14
In order to resume the historic partnership between Brazil and Angola, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva paid a state visit to the country with a delegation made up of members of the government and autonomous agencies, parliamentarians and businesspeople. Representing Fiocruz, the vice-president of Education, Information and Communication (VPEIC/Fiocruz), Cristiani Machado, was in Luanda from August 24 to 25 and took part in activities...
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Data de publicação: 11/09/2023 - 11:06
A group of researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC/China) visited Fiocruz in the last week of October and met with colleagues from the Foundation to advance the cooperation in the area of science and technology related to health. On the occasion, a working group (WG) was created to facilitate the creation of the Sino-Brazilian Infectious Diseases Research and...
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Data de publicação: 16/08/2023 - 16:25
Fiocruz reaffirms its commitment and institutional policy to deepen affirmative and inclusive actions for the country's indigenous populations, through partnerships that offer access to education. The Leônidas & Maria Deane Institute (Fiocruz Amazônia) launched last Monday (8/14) the first master's degree course in Collective Health aimed exclusively at training indigenous professionals, teachers and researchers from Alto...
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Data de publicação: 16/08/2023 - 15:35
Fiocruz actively participated in the Amazon Dialogues, which preceded the Amazon Summit in Belém, capital of the state of Pará, with the co-organization of two events: Health and Environment in the Amazon: integration needed today to act in future scenarios and strengthen the SUS and The Strategic Role of Social Technologies for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the Amazon 2030 Agenda. Both meetings, which were...
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Data de publicação: 09/08/2023 - 15:15
In collaboration with Fundação Hospital Estadual do Acre (Fundhacre), Centro de Infectologia Charles Mérieux and the Federal University of Acre (Ufac), researchers from Fiocruz Rondônia have described a molecular method for quantifying the viral load of individuals with hepatitis Delta (HDV), a disease that is endemic in regions with high prevalence of hepatitis B (HBV). Despite its importance in the public health...
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Data de publicação: 21/07/2023 - 16:25
Joining efforts to reduce maternal, child and fetal mortality rates in the region as soon as possible. This was one of the mottos of the meeting (7/14) between the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean, Susana Sottoli, the UNFPA delegation in Brazil, the Chief of Staff of the Presidency of Fiocruz, Zélia Profeta, among other representatives of the Foundation. Sottoli was at Fiocruz to...
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Data de publicação: 20/07/2023 - 11:44
A graduate of the Sergio Arouca National School of Public Health (Ensp/Fiocruz), the director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), Jarbas Barbosa returned this Thursday (7/13) to the Foundation to pay homage to Fiocruz. The visit also had the signing of two agreements: one to support studies for the development of the mRNA vaccine against COVID-19, and the other for technical cooperation in the field of Traditional, Complementary...
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Data de publicação: 14/07/2023 - 12:29
Fiocruz received, in the last week, visits from authorities and foreign delegations interested in acting and in possible areas of cooperation with the Foundation. On different occasions, the Chinese ambassador to Brazil, Zhu Qingqiao, and the Swiss Federal Councilor, Guy Parmelin, participated in meetings at the Official Residence, where they reinforced their willingness to expand existing partnerships and invest in new ones, mainly in the areas...
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Data de publicação: 11/07/2023 - 13:04
A strategic agenda for cooperation on research on Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicines (MTCI) is being defined between the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) and Fiocruz's National Observatory of Traditional, Integrative and Complementary Knowledge and Practices in Health (ObservaPICS). The PAHO/WHO consultant in Brazil for Health Systems, Health Services, and TCIM, Rafael Dall'Alba, visited the ObservaPICS on...
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Data de publicação: 19/06/2023 - 16:39
During the pandemic, few actions to control the transmission and manage cases of COVID-19 in low-income urban communities were implemented worldwide. Inequalities in the access to health have contributed to an increase in cases and deaths in vulnerable communities. However, an article recently published by the online journal BMJ Global Health documents the effectiveness and impact in the reduction of the COVID-19 mortality rate after a...
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Data de publicação: 06/06/2023 - 16:38
The Resolution on the Health of Indigenous Peoples, unanimously approved at the 76th World Health Assembly, last Monday (5/29), had Fiocruz's stamp from its conception to the presentation in Geneva. The document establishes that the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) develop a global action plan by 2026 and recommends actions to the member states – a step in which the Foundation should actively participate in...
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Data de publicação: 06/06/2023 - 16:10
The pandemic left an important lesson for several countries that had to invest in structures or that already had the capacity to respond to health emergencies. But what was also observed were uneven responses and an asymmetry between countries in pathogen surveillance and access to vaccines and inputs. How to maintain the capacities generated by the pandemic and, at the same time, leverage fairer responses among countries for next emergencies...
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Data de publicação: 02/06/2023 - 12:12
Published in the journal The Lancet Regional Health – Americas, the article addresses the construction of housing, water and sanitation patterns, in addition to the socioeconomic status of the Guarani population. This is the first research into a cohort of indigenous births carried out in Brazil. Coordinated by the researcher from the Department of Endemic Diseases at the National School of Public Health Sergio Arouca (Ensp/Fiocruz),...
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Data de publicação: 24/05/2023 - 15:15
What are the impacts of the most serious cases of COVID-19 on pregnancy? According to an article published in the journal BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, the chance of fetal death was four times higher in pregnancies during which women had Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). This risk increased even further when the clinical condition of SARS in the pregnant woman was accompanied by vaginal delivery (risk 7.06 times greater), or when it was...
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Data de publicação: 23/05/2023 - 15:59
The Institute of Technology on Immunobiologicals (Bio-Manguinhos/ Fiocruz) and the Ezequiel Dias Foundation (Funed) have just received registration from the Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency (Anvisa) for the production of the meningococcal ACWY conjugate vaccine. The registration is the result of a partnership between the two institutions and the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), carried out in line with the Brazilian Ministry...
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Data de publicação: 23/05/2023 - 14:13
Fiocruz and the World Health Organization (WHO) signed this Monday (5/22) a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that establishes the bases of the international cooperation to be developed between the Foundation and the WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence, headquartered in Berlin, Germany. One of the central points of the collaboration is the development of stronger surveillance data integration tools, taking advantage of Fiocruz's...
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Data de publicação: 28/04/2023 - 10:09
The first thesis developed under the system of international co-supervision research at the Graduate Program in Tropical Medicine of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC/Fiocruz) shed light on an important public health problem: The spread of HIV at the border between Brazil and French Guiana. Through data collection and interviews, the study highlighted factors that contribute to the virus infections and AIDS cases.
Flávia gave a...
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Data de publicação: 27/04/2023 - 16:32
Fiocruz Pernambuco has been concentrating efforts on the development of new diagnostic tests for tuberculosis (TB) that are efficient, practical, fast and accessible to the entire population, especially to the most vulnerable groups and to SUS health services. These actions are part of the Study of clinical and laboratory evaluation of rapid, point of care, easy to use and accessible diagnostic testing in regions with high rates of tuberculosis...
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Data de publicação: 27/04/2023 - 09:28
A world-leading international trial into the immune-boosting benefits of the tuberculosis vaccine, BCG, has found it does not protect healthcare workers against COVID-19. The BRACE trial, led by Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and published in the New England Journal of Medicine this Wednesday (4/26), tested whether the BCG vaccine could protect healthcare workers against SARS-CoV-2 in the first six months after vaccination. In...
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Data de publicação: 25/04/2023 - 11:49
On World Chagas Disease Day (4/14), the Institute of Drug Technology (Farmanguinhos/Fiocruz) and the German multinational Bayer signed a Memorandum of Understanding at the Moorish Castle, the Foundation's headquarters, in Rio de Janeiro. The document establishes the basis for assessing a future cooperation agreement for the supply of the drug Nifurtimox to the Brazilian government, a significant step towards the treatment of the disease....
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Data de publicação: 20/04/2023 - 16:38
On World Chagas Disease Day (4/14), Fiocruz supports and participates in the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) campaign with the release of a video, produced by the CUIDA Chagas Project (Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases/Fiocruz), in partnership with the Organization. With the theme It is time to integrate the care for Chagas disease into Primary Health Care, this year's campaign talks about the importance of...
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Data de publicação: 13/04/2023 - 10:36
Fiocruz and the CAS-TWAS Center of Excellence for Emerging Infectious Diseases (CEEID), through the Institute of Microbiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), signed this morning 4/13 in Beijing a Memorandum of Understanding that creates the Sino-Brazilian Infectious Diseases Research and Prevention Center (IDRPC). The agreement takes place during President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's first visit to China after taking office...
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