Data de publicação: 05/02/2021 - 10:57
A project of Fiocruz Pernambuco was selected in a public call released by the Federal Government in a partnership with other countries that are part of BRICS - formed by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The public notice’s resources had R$6.2 million provided by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation and R$1 million provided byt the Ministry of Health to fund researches directed to facing the Covid-19 pandemic...
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Data de publicação: 05/02/2021 - 10:19
On the side of Maici river (Aldeia Dudu), an indigenous woman called Potai Pirahã received the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine. Aftere 28 days, she should get the second dose. Potai Pirahã is part of a group of 713 indigenous people that will be vaccinated in the municipality of Humaitá (in the South of Amazonas). The vaccination in indigenous lands of the area started on January 26th, along with lectures to raise...
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Data de publicação: 05/02/2021 - 10:09
On January 29th, Fiocruz officially submited the application to register the Covid-19 vaccine to the Healthy Surveillance Agency (Anvisa), which will allow the Oxford-AstraZeneca immunizer Covid-19 vaccine across the country. “This is another key step in facing the pandemic and it will allow the Brazilian population to have broad access to the vaccine, which will be distributed through the Ministry of Health’s National Immunization...
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Data de publicação: 03/02/2021 - 12:41
Gender & Covid-19: How to create a genderresponsive pandemic plan - Addressing the secondary effects of COVID-19 (documento em ingês)
Autores: Erica N. Rosser, Rosemary Morgan, Heang-Lee Tan, Kate Hawkins, Anne Ngunjiri, Amy Oyekunle, Brunah Schall, Denise Nacif Pimenta, Eduardo Tamaki, Mariela Rocha, Clare Wenham.
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Data de publicação: 25/01/2021 - 12:46
Analyzing the characteristics of patients hospitalized due to Covid-19 in Brazil and examining the impact of the disease in the use of resources and in hospital mortality were the goals of the study that assessed the first 250 thousand hospitalizations due to Covid-19 in Brazil, between February 16 and August 15, 2020. “The work has two great contributions to give: documenting the effect of the epidemic on the Brazilian population and on...
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Data de publicação: 19/01/2021 - 16:06
Preservation Policy Scientific and cultural collections of Fiocruz
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Data de publicação: 18/12/2020 - 14:24
Representatives of Fiocruz and of the British Embassy met on December 15 to discuss cooperation in health between the Foundation and institutions of the United Kingdom. At the meeting, requested by the embassy’s business manager, Liv Davidson, and with the presence of the British consul in Rio de Janeiro, Simon Wood, the attendees discussed current partnerships and possible new ones.
The main cooperation of Fiocruz with British...
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Data de publicação: 17/12/2020 - 16:11
At the Ordinary General Assembly held on December 3, the Board of Directors of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (ABC, in the Portuguese acronym) released the results of the elections to full members, correspondents, employees, and affiliates. The president of Fiocruz, Nísia Trindade Lima, was elected a full member in the Social Sciences category. And researcher Milena Botelho Pereira Soares, from Fiocruz Bahia, was elected a full member...
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Data de publicação: 16/12/2020 - 16:31
The Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, through the Institute of Technology in Immunobiologicals (Bio-Manguinhos), signed with the Government of the State of Rio de Janeiro, this Thursday (3/12), the final deed of the land where the Industrial Complex of Biotechnology in Health (Cibs) is being built, in the Industrial District of Santa Cruz, in Rio de Janeiro. The ceremony took place at the Guanabara Palace, the head office of the Rio de Janeiro government...
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Data de publicação: 03/12/2020 - 14:51
A study published in the Nutrients scientific journal shows that teenagers of five countries, including Brazil, have changed their consumption of fried foods, sweet foods, fruits, and vegetables during the social isolation prescribed to reduce Covid-19 transmission. The research, which reveals an increased consumption of fruits and vegetables during social distancing, has also shown higher ingestion of sweets and fried foods among teenagers....
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Data de publicação: 02/12/2020 - 16:46
In the municipalities of Itaituba and Tairão, in the state of Pará, along the Tapajós River, the munduruku indigenous population is suffering from mercury widely used in mining and panning activities. A study carried out by Fiocruz in a partnership with WWF-Brasil shows that all participants of the research are affected by the contaminant. Six out of every 10 participants presented mercury levels above safe thresholds: about...
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Data de publicação: 01/12/2020 - 18:03
Autores: Alexandra Solomon, Rosemary Morgan, Clare Wenham, Julia Smith, Denise Nacif Pimenta, Kate Hawkins, Valerie Mueller. Asha Herten-Crabb.
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Acesse o especial da Fiocruz sobre a Covid-19.
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Data de publicação: 27/11/2020 - 18:21
A epidemia de COVID-19 através de uma lente de gênero: e se uma abordagem de gênero tivesse sido aplicada para informar as medidas de saúde pública para combater a pandemia de COVID-19? (em inglês)
Autres: CRISTINA ENGUITA-FERNANDEZ, ELENA MARBAN CASTRO , OLIVIA MANDERS , LAUREN MAXWELL e GUSTAVO CORREA MATTA.
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Data de publicação: 17/11/2020 - 10:45
Large-scale fires in the Amazon and Pantanal regions, which have reached record levels in 2020, tend to worsen the Covid-19 epidemic scenario in these regions, which include municipalities usually lacking in high-complexity hospital infrastructure as well as basic healthcare services. These areas are also home to populations with higher social vulnerability. According to data from the National Institute of Spatial Research (Inpe), in the...
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Data de publicação: 10/11/2020 - 20:15
Beatriz C. Thomé & Gustavo C. Matta & Sérgio T. A. Rego. Bioethical Inquiry. DOI:10.1007/s11673-020-10023-w
Artigo em inglês.
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Data de publicação: 10/11/2020 - 20:11
Ana Lucia de M Pontes e Ricardo Ventura Santos. Health Policy and Planning, 35, 2020, i107–i114. doi: 10.1093/heapol/czaa098.
Artigo em inglês.
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Data de publicação: 06/11/2020 - 10:35
To mark the six months of Covid-19 in Brazil, the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) has published a special edition of its Covid-19 Observatory Bulletin with an assessment of the pandemic that has been having effects on the health of populations and challenging science all over the world. Made by a multidisciplinary team of researchers of the Foundation, the investigation includes the main aspects related to Covid-19, such as social, economic,...
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Data de publicação: 03/11/2020 - 15:45
On October 26th the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) sent to the External Commission of the House of Representatives for the Fight Against Covid-19 the Technological Order Agreement signed with AstraZeneca for the production of a Covid-19 vaccine. Although the contract contains classified information, common in contracts of this nature and classified according to Brazilian law, the document was sent to the Commission in its full version...
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Data de publicação: 03/11/2020 - 14:46
Symptoms of anxiety and depression affect 47.3% of essential workers during the Covid-19 pandemic, in Brazil and in Spain. More than half of them - and 27.4% of the total of people interviewed - suffer from both anxiety and depression simultaneously. In addition, 44.3% report alcohol abuse; 42.9% report changes in their sleep habits; and 30.9% were diagnosed with or were treated for mental illness in the year prior to a survey coordinated by...
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Data de publicação: 26/10/2020 - 14:33
Two projects with the participation of Fiocruz will be receiving financial support from the United Kingdom, after being acknowledged by the Global Effort on Covid-19 (GECO) Health Research. The call sought research projects that focused on offering responses to the multiple health consequences of the pandemic in low- and medium-income rate countries. Announced on October 10, the GECO is financed by two British research institutions, the National...
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Data de publicação: 13/10/2020 - 14:44
The Center for Technological Development in Health of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (CDTS/Fiocruz) and the European Infrastructure for Translational Medicine (Eatris) signed, in September, a letter of intent with the goal of promoting initiatives in translational sciences. The partnership includes not only education and training projects within this theme, but also the creation of a Global Hub of Drug Repositioning, with an initial focus on...
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Data de publicação: 07/10/2020 - 17:44
In a partnership with the National Institute of Metrology, Quality, and Technology (Inmetro), researchers of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC/Fiocruz) have recorded new images that reveal the effects of the infection by the new coronavirus in the cells. Obtained through high-resolution microscopy, the photographs show that infected cells show membrane extensions, called filopodia, that form intercellular connections. This alteration may be one of...
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Data de publicação: 07/10/2020 - 16:55
Genetic sequences and clinical and epidemiological data of influenza and SARS-CoV-2 viruses. Geographical and specific data of species associated with avian viruses and viruses of other animals. These contents, crucial to help national and international researchers understand more rapidly how the viruses evolve and spread during epidemics and pandemics, can be found in the international platform of genomic data, the GISAID. Since the beginning...
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Data de publicação: 07/10/2020 - 15:41
In a cooperation between Fiocruz Pernambuco, the Central Laboratory of Public Health of Pernambuco (Lacen/SES-PE) and the University of Pernambuco Campus Serra Talhada (UPE-ST), a pioneer study describes the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of the first 557 patients of the state to be contaminated by the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). The paper was published (29/9) in the international magazine Travel Medicine and Infectious...
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Data de publicação: 29/09/2020 - 10:54
In a partnership with Instituto D’Or (Idor) and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), a study by the Center for Technological Development in Health (CDTS/Fiocruz) observed that the virus responsible for the Covid-19 pandemic, the SARS-CoV-2, can infect neural cells and create brain damage. Organized by Faperj and published in preprint, the project started with the analysis of the neural tissue of a patient who died due to...
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