Data de publicação: 25/11/2021 - 13:58
“One mistake, one correction”: according to Carlos Morel, a researcher from the Brazilian state of Pernambuco, former Fiocruz president and current coordinator of the Center for Technological Development in Health (CDTS), this is how the world works. Last Tuesday (23 November), after attending the first meeting of the Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO), a group formed by the World Health Organization...
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Data de publicação: 17/11/2021 - 18:41
Sociologist and president of Fiocruz, Nísia Trindade Lima was appointed for The World Academy of Sciences for the advancement of science in developing countries (TWAS). The appointment was in the Academy’s General Meeting, on November 1st, as part of its 15th general conference.
Nísia is one of the 20 women who were appointed, in a total of 58 new members (Photo: Reproduction)
TWAS has the goal of bringing different...
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Data de publicação: 08/10/2021 - 17:05
With Fiocruz among the signatories, it was launched this Wednesday (October 6), the São Paulo Declaration on Planetary Health, an initiative of Planetary Health Alliance and the University of São Paulo, in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The declaration is considered the first document of the global planetary health community to describe the actions needed to achieve what it calls "the great...
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Data de publicação: 17/11/2021 - 18:24
There are a lot of statements, and a lot of commitments as well, but there is a lack of distinction of responsibilities and of the obligation in fulfilling the goals set, which hinders the operation of the G20. That is what the participants in the latest Advanced Seminar of the Fiocruz Global Health Center (CRIS/Fiocruz) point out. The G-20 Webinar: What we should expect from the richest people in the world in global and planetary health?...
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Data de publicação: 29/11/2021 - 10:28
Severe cases of COVID-19 are related to the ageing of the immune system and to acute immunodeficiency. It is what the new study led by the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC/Fiocruz) and by the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) shows, published in the academic journal Journal of Infectious Diseases.
By analyzing blood samples of patients that have been hospitalized with the disease, the researchers detected signs of hyperactivity,...
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Data de publicação: 25/11/2021 - 13:30
The first dose protects, but immunization requires a second dose and varies according to the age group and the time interval between doses. These are some conclusions of the pre-publication study that evaluated the effectiveness of the first dose of the AstraZeneca/Fiocruz vaccine against symptomatic cases of COVID-19 in the population of Complexo da Maré, in Rio de Janeiro (RJ). A 42.4% protection against symptomatic cases was estimated...
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Data de publicação: 03/11/2021 - 09:39
Ten years after its signing, the Rio Political Declaration on Social Determinants of Health is more relevant than ever, as shown by the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in the world. To celebrate the document’s tenth anniversary and evaluate the approaches adopted since, two webinars held last Thursday (21 October) brought together many actors that were crucial for the negotiations that culminated in the declaration and for the quest for...
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Data de publicação: 20/10/2021 - 10:49
A cooperation that dates back to the beginning of the last century and that has been renovated and expanded over the decades was celebrated last Thursday (October 14th), with the visit of Portugal’s assistant secretary of Health, António Lacerda Sales, to Fiocruz. Accompanied by the Secretary of State of the Portuguese Communities, Berta Nunes, and by ambassador Luís Faro Ramos, among other members of the delegation, Sales...
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Data de publicação: 16/12/2021 - 09:23
The first edition of the bulletin on the COVID-19 vaccines' effectiveness in the Brazilian population, from Fiocruz's Vigivac project, was published on Thursday (12/9). The report, which presents analyses of the four vaccines administered in Brazil from January to October 2021, points out that all of them confer a great reduction in the risk of infection, hospitalizations, and death from COVID-19. Considering serious outcomes (...
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Data de publicação: 17/12/2021 - 12:14
When the World Health Organization (WHO) decided to classify the Omicron strain of the new coronavirus as a variant of concern, it took into account the recommendations of a group of specialists. The so-called Technical Advisory Group on Sars-CoV-2 Evolution (TAG-VE) is a select group of scientists that includes a Brazilian virologist in its line-up: Brazilian researcher Marilda Siqueira, chief of the Laboratory of Measles and Respiratory...
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Data de publicação: 30/11/2021 - 11:47
In 2018, the king of the Yoruba people, Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Babatunde Ogunwus, visited Fiocruz and introduced the idea of a partnership in the field of traditional medicine and integrative health practices. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the conversation was stalled, but it was resumed this Wednesday (November 24th) with a visit of a delegation from the Palace of Ife to the Foundation.
(Photo: Pedro Paulo Gonç...
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Data de publicação: 03/01/2022 - 12:40
For three consecutive mornings in Brazil, or three nights on the other side of the world, in China, the CAS-Fiocruz webinar on Infectous Diseases brought together researchers from the Foundation and the Chinese Academy of Sciences to exchange information on topics such as COVID-19, vaccines, zika, dengue, and other diseases common to both sides of the globe. The webinar took place on December 14th, 15th, and 16th.
The event opening, on...
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Data de publicação: 25/06/2012 - 09:58
Unit dedicated to preserving the memory of the institution and research activities, teaching, documentation and dissemination of the history of public health and biomedical sciences in Brazil. COC is the home of the most significant collection of documents of health of Brazil and the only post-graduation in the history of science and health in the country. Edits the quarterly journal História, Ciência, Saúde –...
Unidades e escritórios (antigo)
Data de publicação: 25/06/2012 - 10:41
Unit with direct performance on health surveillance. It is national reference for laboratory-analytical issues relating to quality control of food, medicines, cosmetics, and supplies for dialysis and health, sets, diagnostic reagents and supplies, sanitizing products, blood and blood products, environmental health and biological products.
To comply with its role under the National Health Surveillance System (SNVS), the institute carries out...
Unidades e escritórios (antigo)
Data de publicação: 25/06/2012 - 10:43
Unit focused on education, research, service, technological development and extension in the health of women, children and adolescents.
The Institute also operates in the areas of technological development in health, national and international cooperation and networks coordination such as the Brazilian Network and the Iberoamerican Program of Human Milk Banks, the Brazilian Neonatal Research Network, among others. Includes also the National...
Unidades e escritórios (antigo)
Data de publicação: 25/06/2012 - 10:37
The Institute of Drug Technology (Farmanguinhos) is currently the largest official pharmaceutical laboratory linked to the Ministry of Health. Farmanguinhos produces over one billion of medicines per year for the strategic programs of the Federal Government, which are distributed to the population by the Unified Health System (SUS), and meet emergency demands in Brazil and abroad.
Among the products produced by the Institute are antibiotics,...
Unidades e escritórios (antigo)
Data de publicação: 25/06/2012 - 10:37
Unit that participates in the formulation, implementation and evaluation of public policies, develops strategies and performs actions of information and communication in science, technology and innovation in health, in order meet the social demands of the Unified Health System (SUS) and other governmental bodies.
Major services
- Library of Biomedical Sciences.
- Library of the Health of Women and Children.
- Library of Public Health...
Unidades e escritórios (antigo)
Data de publicação: 25/06/2012 - 10:32
Unit focused on teaching activities, research and cooperation in the field of professional education in health.
Major services
- High school integrated with health technician course.
- Master and specialization in professional health education.
- Coordination of the Scientific Vocation Program (Provoc), which puts high school students in contact with the stages of scientific research under the guidance of researchers.
- Prepares...
Unidades e escritórios (antigo)
Data de publicação: 08/03/2021 - 10:01
A pioneering study used the genomic sequencing of samples of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to assess the resistance of indigenous peoples to anti-tuberculosis drugs. Published on Scientific Reports, a magazine of the Nature group, the research also revealed a high frequency of polymorphisms associated with resistance to the main drugs used in the treatment. The article, titled Identification of a predominant genotype of...
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Data de publicação: 05/03/2021 - 10:05
A study of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC/Fiocruz) was received the Small Grants award of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH). The research was made by post-doctorate student Viviane de Almeida Bastos, under the supervision of researchers Ana Gisele Ferreira and Richard Hemmi Valente, of the IOC’s Toxicology Laboratory, and investigates natural inhibitors of snake toxins, isolated from South American opossum...
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Data de publicação: 05/03/2021 - 10:44
An important step to understanding the dynamics of arbovirus transmission, such as dengue fever, zika and chikungunya, is to get to know mosquitoes’ ability to get infected and to transmit the viruses that cause these diseases. This characteristic is technically known as vectorial competence. A study by researchers of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC/Fiocruz) showed that the Aedes aegypti has low vectorial competence for the zika virus when...
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Data de publicação: 30/03/2021 - 17:10
Executive:
Viviane Santos de Oliveira Veiga
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ)
Maria Luiza Machado Campos
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
João Luiz Rebelo Moreira
University of Twente (International Representative)
Patricia Corrêa Henning
Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO)
Luiz Olavo Bonino da Silva Santos
VODAN IN consultant
Researchers:
Sergio...
Páginas Institucionais (antigas)
Data de publicação: 08/03/2021 - 11:27
When the first Portuguese and Spanish ships moored along the coast of the Americas, microorganisms that caused common disease in Europe, but which had never occurred in American soil, disembarked along with the crews. The causer of visceral leishmaniasis, Leishmania infantum is part of a group of microscopic travelers which, despite the huge differences between the Old and the New World, managed to settle here quite well.
More than...
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Data de publicação: 03/03/2021 - 09:35
Fiocruz's president, Nísia Trindade Lima, was invited to be a member of the Steering Committee Gender Summit, which had its first meeting on January 26th. The group is composed of high-level representatives from key institutions, responsible for approving and suggesting ideas on the final agenda of the event. The 20th Gender Summit will be hosted by Brazil, in June 2021, virtually. Preparations for the GS20 are guided by the central...
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Data de publicação: 03/03/2021 - 09:44
In one more initiative of articulation for teaching, Fiocruz shares its capacity and resources with international partners. From March 22nd, 40 students of the Master's in Public Health, from the Faculty of Social Sciences, University Lúrio (Unilúrio), in Mozambique (Africa) will attend the course Scientific Research Methodology - already offered in a transversal way for different Foundation courses. The classes will be...
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