Data de publicação: 06/06/2024 - 16:01
Last Tuesday (5/28), the Ministry of Women's Affairs held a signing ceremony for the terms of commitment that formalize the participation of companies and institutions in the 7th Edition of the Pro-Gender and Race Equity Program. The event, at the Banco do Brasil auditorium in Brasilia, was attended by the Minister for Women, Cida Gonçalves, government officials, representatives of UN Women, the International Labour Organization (ILO...
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Data de publicação: 25/07/2024 - 15:56
Researchers from the Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases (INI/Fiocruz) will be attending the 25th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2024), which takes place in the German city of Munich from July 22nd to 26th. The event is organized by the International Aids Society (IAS) and brings together scientists, managers, activists and representatives of the largest research institutions working on HIV/Aids. The Institute will also...
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Data de publicação: 03/06/2024 - 16:09
The 77th World Health Assembly (WHA) began last Monday (5/27) and ended on Saturday (6/1) in Geneva, Switzerland. This year's World Health Organization (WHO) assembly, whose theme is “All for health. Health for all ", will be attended by global leaders, such as Brazil. Among the main topics to be discussed was a global treaty on pandemics, but the text was not ready for this week's summit due to a lack of consensus among its...
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Data de publicação: 16/07/2024 - 12:08
The largest continental wetland on the planet and home to a biodiversity as diverse as it is threatened, the Pantanal is going through yet another intense series of fires. It is estimated that in the last five years, fires have degraded around 9% of the biome's vegetation. This destruction harms the health of the species that inhabit the Pantanal and those that live outside it. The damage is countless and affects human populations and other...
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Data de publicação: 25/07/2024 - 11:43
In partnership with the University of Coimbra, Fiocruz has signed an agreement for the technological development of radiopharmaceuticals and the future health registration of products in Brazil. The collaboration takes place through the Institute of Drug Technology (Farmanguinhos/Fiocruz) and was made official this Friday (7/19) in Coimbra, Portugal. On the occasion, two other agreements were also signed: one in the field of education and...
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Data de publicação: 16/07/2024 - 13:39
Fiocruz, in particular through the Center for Strategic Studies (CEE/Fiocruz) and the Fiocruz Global Health Center (Cris/Fiocruz), coordinates the two sub-task forces dedicated to discussions on health in the T20. Other units of the Foundation, such as Fiocruz Brasília, have also contributed. The T20 is a G20 engagement group that brings together think tanks, research centers and high-level experts from participating and invited countries...
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Data de publicação: 25/07/2024 - 11:02
Four years after a previously unknown virus brought the world economy to its knees and led to the deaths of more than 20 million people, the threat from COVID-19 may have receded – but the risk of new epidemics and pandemics has never been greater.
It is only a matter of time before the next virus comes for us, with potentially even more devastating effects. That is why the world must act now to establish a robust preparedness and...
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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: 16/07/2024 - 10:23
On July 1st and 2nd, the Science20 Summit, the G20 engagement group for science and technology, met in Rio de Janeiro to formulate the basis of the official communiqué that will be addressed to the heads of state and other authorities of the 19 largest economies in the world, the European Union, and the African Union, at the November meeting in Brazil. Science20 is made up of the national science academies of the G20 countries and...
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Data de publicação: 22/07/2024 - 16:19
Admissions of babies under the age of one due to pneumonia, bronchitis and bronchiolitis in the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS in the Portuguese acronym) units hit a record high in 2023, according to a survey carried out by the Observatory of Children's Health (Observa Infância), an initiative of Fiocruz and Unifase. There were 153 thousand admissions last year, an average of 419 a day, an increase of 24% over the previous year....
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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: 22/07/2024 - 12:03
A study carried out by the Laboratory of Modeling in Statistics, Geoprocessing and Epidemiology (Legepi) at Fiocruz Amazônia points to an increase of around 264% in suicide rates due to intentional self-poisoning with medication in Brazil between 2003 and 2022. The research, the results of which were published in the scientific journal Frontiers in Public Health, revealed that the unprecedented increase in these rates may have been...
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Data de publicação: 10/12/2019 - 15:39
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O Programa de Computação Científica da Fiocruz (Procc/Fiocruz) é uma inciativa da Fiocruz para trabalhar em favor do desenvolvimento e da aplicação de métodos matemáticos e estatísticos inovadores em pesquisas no campo das biociências, prioritariamente as desenvolvidas na Fundação.
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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: 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: 09/07/2024 - 10:28
At the beginning of July (7/1), the Health Department of Joinville promoted actions related to the implementation of the Wolbachia method in the municipality. The method's strategy consists of introducing the Wolbachia bacterium into Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. A meeting on the project was attended by representatives of the Ministry of Health, Fiocruz and the World Mosquito Program (WMP). The group also made an inspection visit that marked the...
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Data de publicação: 03/07/2024 - 15:19
In epidemiological research work, the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC/Fiocruz) confirmed the presence of the worm Angiostrongylus cantonensis, causing eosinophilic meningitis, in snails collected in the city of Nova Iguaçu, Baixada Fluminense, in the Rio de Janeiro state. Identification was carried out by the Malacology Laboratory of IOC, which acts as the National Reference Laboratory for Schistosomiasis-...
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Data de publicação: 16/07/2024 - 14:41
The Brazilian Ministry of Health, through the Health and Environmental Surveillance Secretariat, has issued a technical note formalizing the use of Larvicide Spreading Stations (EDL, in the Portuguese acronym) – a technology developed by the Center for Pathogens, Reservoirs and Vectors in the Amazon (Amazon PReV) of Fiocruz Amazônia's Ecological Laboratory for Communicable Diseases in the Amazon (EDTA) – as a strategy for...
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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: 20/06/2024 - 12:35
Researchers from the Climate and Health Observatory of Fiocruz's Institute of Communication and Information in Health (Icict/Fiocruz) warn, in a technical note, of an increased incidence of respiratory diseases (COVID-19, colds and flu and tuberculosis), gastrointestinal diseases (hepatitis A and infectious diarrhea), vector-borne diseases (mainly dengue) and leptospirosis among the population affected by floods in Rio Grande do Sul. Another...
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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: 19/06/2024 - 16:20
After a difficult selection process in view of the quality of the projects submitted, the three winners of the 2nd Fiocruz Servier International Award, the first in Oncology, were announced last Thursday (6/13). The awards ceremony took place at the Foundation's Manguinhos campus in Rio de Janeiro, highlighting the scientific community that submitted projects and Brazilian research. Among the assessment criteria are the degree of...
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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: 14/06/2024 - 12:17
At a meeting with the Vice President of the Republic and Minister of Development, Industry and Commerce Geraldo Alckmin, in Beijing, Sinovac announced that it will invest US$ 100 million in the development of cell therapy, vaccine production and monoclonal antibodies in Brazil. Sinovac and Fiocruz also announced their intention to cooperate in the research and development of vaccines to tackle health crises.
Alckmin celebrated the partnership...
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