Data de publicação: 26/07/2021 - 19:07
The largest set of favelas in Rio de Janeiro, with about 140,000 inhabitants, Maré will be the home of a study led by Fiocruz on the impact of COVID-19 vaccination on its population. The initiative is a collaboration between the Networks of Maré, Rio de Janeiro’s City Hall by means of the Municipal Secretariat of Health, and Fiocruz. Taking into account the peculiarities in territories that include favelas and peripheral...
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Data de publicação: 02/12/2016 - 10:28
Nagoya Protocol: Reference Documents
The Nagoya Protocol is the international agreement that regulates the Access and Benefit Sharing. That is, it establishes guidelines for commercial relations between the provider country of the genetic resources and the user country, covering aspects such as royalty payments, establishment of joint ventures, the right to technology transfer and training.
The protocol was created by the Conference of the...
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Data de publicação: 16/07/2021 - 18:24
Data from Relatório Luz 2021 show that Brazil did not make any progress in the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) of United Nations’ 2030 Agenda. The 5th edition of the report was published on Monday (July 12th), in a public meeting of the Chamber of Deputies.
The document is prepared by the Civil Society Working Group, which consists of 57 organizations and boards from all over the country. One hundred and six...
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Data de publicação: 16/07/2021 - 13:42
The dispersion of diseases in the Amazon is directly related to the agricultural development trajectory of municipalities and the loss of biodiversity. Malaria is prevalent in municipalities with an agro-extractivist profile and with forest cover, that is, half of the Amazon territory. Dengue and chikungunya occur more frequently in municipalities of recent urban expansion, such as on the southern edge of the Amazon in transition to the Cerrado...
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Data de publicação: 30/06/2021 - 13:02
A recently published study, with the participation of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation - Fiocruz, suggests that the Delta variant of the new coronavirus, first detected in India, may increase the risk of reinfection. The research shows that the serum of people previously infected by other strains is less powerful against this viral variant. The problem is markedly observed among individuals previously infected by the Gamma variant, originally...
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Data de publicação: 07/07/2021 - 10:54
Economy or health? This false dichotomy used as an argument against pandemic control measures in Brazil has lost yet another nuance. If decision-makers were guided by ideal information that allowed them to adopt social distancing measures at the right moment and in the right dose, more lives could be saved, and the economic impact could be reduced during the pandemic. To make this possible, a predictive control system was developed within the...
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Data de publicação: 28/06/2021 - 10:34
Cooperation between the so-called Global South countries took a hard hit during the COVID-19 pandemic, suffering backtracks due to political and ideological issues in the past few years, but it has the potential to help these nations overcome the public health crisis with a sustainable recovery. These were some of the reflections raised during the South-South Cooperation seminar, diplomacy in health and pandemic that the Fiocruz Global Heath...
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Data de publicação: 29/07/2021 - 11:19
Three projects led by Fiocruz researchers are among the ten selected worldwide by the Grand Challenges ICODA COVID-19 Data Science, an initiative that supports health data projects to respond more accurately to the pandemic and possible challenges in the future. With support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Minderoo Foundation, and Microsoft's AI for Health program, they will receive a fund of US$100,000 for their...
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Data de publicação: 17/08/2021 - 09:52
Throughout history, there are many records of disasters that decimated entire populations, cities, states and civilizations. None of those had the same level that the climate change crisis foresees. UN’s secretary-general, António Guterres, stated that the report of Group I of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) is “a code red for humanity”. The report contained compelling evidence that the gas emissions...
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Data de publicação: 12/08/2021 - 10:37
Providing scientific knowledge about the different aspects of the Triatominae, the insects that spread Chagas disease, also known as kissing bugs, is the goal of the book Triatominae: the biology of Chagas disease vectors. The book has 20 chapters about natural history and the evolution of the subfamily, its taxonomy, physiology, interaction with parasites, control of the insect, and its resistance to pesticides, among other topics.
Arranged...
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Data de publicação: 19/05/2021 - 12:35
A study coordinated by the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) is helping to understand why some critically ill patients submitted to mechanical ventilation manage to leave the ICU, while others do not survive. The research indicates that the presence of the human endogenous retrovirus K (HERV-K) is associated not only with worsening disease but also with early mortality.
From March to December 2020, the study Human endogenous retrovirus K...
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Data de publicação: 02/06/2021 - 17:37
International education webinar brings a circle of conversations with Brazilian researchers and their experiences in Germany and a German researcher experiencing our research institutions.
In a new edition of the PrInt Fiocruz-Capes International Seminar, the Brazil-Germany International Education Initiative organizes an online event to be held on June 8, 2021 at 10:00 am.
Seeking to stimulate the interest in scientific and cultural...
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Data de publicação: 31/05/2021 - 09:35
The past few years have been frustrating for the international climate change agenda. The United Nations Convention on Climate Change (COP25) took place in 2019 in Madrid, but it was far from peaceful, after its cancellation in Brazil and in Chile. Many issues were left to be solved the following year, but in 2020, for the first time, the Convention did not happen, because of the pandemic. There is much catching up to be done and high...
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Data de publicação: 23/06/2021 - 09:26
Last Sunday (June 20), the Municipality of Rio de Janeiro vaccinated the entire eligible population of the island of Paquetá (those above 18 years of age), including pregnant women, against Covid-19. The PaqueTá Vacinada project (Paquetá Is Vaccinated, in loose translation) by the Municipal Health Secretary (SMS) aims to evaluate the effects of large-scale vaccination on the island’s population and was approved by the...
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Data de publicação: 31/05/2021 - 15:07
Three projects, seven minutes of exhibition for each plus a private room to discuss them, exchange knowledge and pursue partnerships. The first edition of Translation Together Connect Series, last Friday (May 28), was a sort of pilot program for the webinars that are expected to become monthly, in an attempt to bring together members of this global alliance and boost projects in the field of translational science. Three Fiocruz researchers,...
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Data de publicação: 02/06/2021 - 17:18
Fiocruz and its Immunobiological Technology Institute (Biomanguinhos/Fiocruz) signed, on Tuesday (6/1), the contract for Technology Transfer of the COVID-19 vaccine (recombinant) with AstraZeneca for the 100% national production of the immunizing agent. The contract formalizes the transfer of knowledge that has already been passed on by the technological partner to speed up the production of the Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) at the...
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Data de publicação: 15/06/2021 - 10:58
Still in the heat of the World Health Assembly and the G20 Global Health Summit, held at the end of May, the Advanced Seminar of the Fiocruz's Global Health Center (CRIS/Fiocruz) brought, last Wednesday (6/10), the main conclusions and challenges for this biennium, in a challenging conjuncture during the COVID-19 pandemic. To account for such a broad issue, the webinar Global Health Agenda 2021 brought together eight debaters and was held in...
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Data de publicação: 21/06/2021 - 18:14
Following the agreement between Fiocruz and The Global Health Network, the course Speech therapy healthcare: oral sensory-motor disorders in the field of neonatology is now available at the Global Health Training Centre in three languages: English, Spanish and Portuguese. The course was developed by a multiprofessional team from the National Institute of Women, Children and Adolescents Health Fernandes Figueira (IFF/Fiocruz) and aimed at speech...
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Data de publicação: 16/06/2021 - 16:39
Published in The New England Journal of Medicine, the results of a randomized controlled trial (RCT) showed a reduction of 77% of cases of dengue fever in areas that received the Aedes aegypti mosquito with Wolbachia, in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. This is the same technique employed in Brazil (the Wolbachia method), an initiative led by Fiocruz in the country.
The study also reveals an 86% reduction in hospitalizations in areas treated with...
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Data de publicação: 25/05/2021 - 10:24
The rapid spread of some Sars-CoV-2 variants has been associated with reports of COVID-19 reinfection, based, for example, on the P.1 high prevalence in the first two months after its emergence. Given this scenario, researchers from Fiocruz Pernambuco and Foundation's Genomics Network members sought to verify what the real mechanisms behind reinfection might be. The initial hypothesis was that a greater competence of the new variants would...
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Data de publicação: 18/05/2021 - 15:23
A mixture of expectation and hope took over Botucatu, in the interior of São Paulo, this weekend. The city was chosen to be the stage for an unprecedented research that kicked off last Sunday (5/16), with the mass vaccination against COVID-19 of the entire adult population. More than 63,000 Botucatu residents were immunized in just one day, exceeding the expectation that 60,000 people would receive the first dose this Sunday. Minister of...
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Data de publicação: 18/06/2021 - 14:57
Led by Australia, a new trial will investigate whether it is possible to predict who remains susceptible to the variants of Sars-CoV-2, even when they received a vaccine against COVID-19 or have already been sick due to the virus. The research will be exploring the immune response of vaccines specific against the disease in Brazilian health workers, in order to identify biomarkers that can indicate whether someone will be protected (or remains...
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Data de publicação: 23/06/2021 - 10:14
Termo de Declaração de Concordância e Veracidade Versão em Inglês do SEI para Cadastro Externo
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Data de publicação: 10/06/2021 - 09:41
"Data and information will be fundamental to understand the dynamics of health inequality reduction processes and establish better public policies and institutional arrangements to respond to and prevent upcoming crises, while contributing to the Unified Health System [SUS, acronym in Portuguese for the Brazilian public health system] improvement", said Nísia Trindade this Monday (September 7), during the event organized by...
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