Data de publicação: 30/03/2021 - 17:26
This March 2021, the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) designated the National Institute for Women's, Children's and Adolescent Health Fernandes Figueira (IFF/Fiocruz) as a PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center to strengthen Human Milk Banks. The designation as a Collaborating Center will be valid for a four years period, starting on March 3, 2021, and can be renewed by redesignation.
The designation as...
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Data de publicação: 19/04/2021 - 17:05
Remembered for the second consecutive year, World Chagas Disease Day was marked in Fiocruz on 14/4, with an event that had not only tributes to those who helped in the research and fight against the disease, but also with the look on the future. In addition to the tributes to the researchers of the institution Zilton Andrade and José Rodrigues Coura, who have died, there was the agreement with Unitaid of CUIDA Chagas virtual signing, a...
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Data de publicação: 29/04/2021 - 16:02
The Presidency of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) signed, on April 20, an international cooperation agreement with the Institute of Global Health of Barcelona (ISGlobal), to establish the basis to implement a joint work plan for the upcoming years. The two institutions have worked together at previous occasions in different research projects and scientific publications. However, the new Memorandum of Understanding formalizes the...
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Data de publicação: 18/03/2021 - 11:31
Edgar Marcelino de Carvalho, a researcher of Fiocruz Bahia, was considered the world’s greatest specialist in cutaneous leishmaniasis by the site Expertscape. The ranking was based on science publications: Carvalho published 84 papers on the subject between 2010 and 2021. The ranking includes the 66 scientists with most papers published on cutaneous leishmaniasis from all over the world and also includes three other researchers of Fiocruz...
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Data de publicação: 06/05/2021 - 17:33
“If you ask me whether we were prepared for this pandemic, I say that, obviously, we were not. If the question is whether we should be prepared for the next pandemics, I clearly say yes. We heard a lot of talk about the resilience and strengthening of healthcare systems, but we must turn speeches into actions.” This was one of the statements made by Carissa Etienne, director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), last Friday...
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Data de publicação: 13/05/2021 - 13:09
There is little data available on the mental health of young indigenous people. In this context, between December 2020 and January 2021, scientists from the Research Center Leônidas & Maria Deane (Fiocruz Amazonia) carried out a diagnostic study that involved eight regions of the Amazon and that resulted in a better understanding of the effects of COVID-19 in this population group. “The study focused on the...
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Data de publicação: 13/05/2021 - 11:57
Fiocruz is taking part of the survey COVID-19: our care, our actions, their effects, with the goal of getting to know better the treatments and preventive actions that people from all over the world have been experiencing in the context of the disease. Spearheaded by the Antenna Foundation, a Swiss NGO that offers technological and medical solutions to populations in need, the survey boasts the collaboration of universities and research...
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Data de publicação: 24/05/2021 - 16:54
If the COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating effect worldwide, recovery provides an opportunity for long-overdue changes to finally happen. It is not enough to think of returning to normality as it was before, because this would not be good for anyone, it is necessary to correct the course and direct science, technology, and innovation towards meeting social, environmental, and health objectives. It was on this line of reflection that the...
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Data de publicação: 06/05/2021 - 07:59
The pandemic brought challenges, but also opportunities, according to lecturers on the 6th annual Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology, and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), also known as the STI Forum. In Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic, the forum’s first session, on Tuesday May 4th, specialists on the fields of sciences, technology and economics analyzed the scenario and looked for ways to recover and...
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Data de publicação: 21/05/2021 - 10:47
The Observatory of Sustainable and Healthy Territories of Bocaina (OTSS), a partnership between Fiocruz and the Traditional Communities Forum (FCT), was appointed as one of the 10 most innovative initiatives for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) implementation in Brazil by 2021. The selection was announced by the Civil Society Working Group for Agenda 2030 (WG 2030 Agenda) and the Institute for Democracy and Sustainability (IDS Brasil...
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Data de publicação: 16/06/2021 - 16:18
The Vice-Presidency of Research and Biological Collections (VPPCB) makes available a paper with recommendations to regulate the Nagoya Protocol in Brazil.
On June 2, 2021, Brazil became a party to the Nagoya Protocol, after depositing its letter of ratification at the United Nations (UN) Secretariat on March 4, 2021.By joining the Nagoya Protocol, Brazil took a very relevant step to be inserted in the global context of access to genetic...
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Data de publicação: 06/05/2021 - 17:00
Promoting the discussion on new strategies to increase research, technological development, and innovation at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), with speakers from development agencies and national and international academic centers dedicated to new methodologies for the governance of science and technology, technological and scientific prospecting, knowledge and innovation management. It is for this purpose that the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (...
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Data de publicação: 28/04/2021 - 12:55
Published on April 24, the Bulletin of the Fiocruz COVID-19 Observatory, referring to Epidemiological Weeks (EW) 14 and 15, between 4 and 17 April, presents a general overview of the Covid-19 situation in the country and its implications. The new edition shows that the pandemic is hitting younger people. The number of cases and deaths by Covid-19 per age group shows that the differential increase per age group is steady. According to the...
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Data de publicação: 20/04/2021 - 16:01
A study by researchers of the Oxford University shows that the risk of cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) in people with COVID-19 is considerably higher than in those who have been vaccinated with mRNA (messenger RNA) vaccines, such as those by Pfizer and Moderna. In addition to mRNA vaccines, the analysis also included the Oxford/AstraZeneca immunizer, produced in Brazil by the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz).
The survey Cerebral venous...
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Data de publicação: 08/07/2016 - 14:28
Modelo da Fiocruz de Termo de Transferência de Material (TTM) para remessas para o exterior em português e inglês.
Fiocruz Model of Material Transfer Agreement (MTA) for shipments abroad in Portuguese and English.
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Data de publicação: 18/03/2021 - 13:30
The United Kingdom ambassador in Brazil, Peter Wilson, visited the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) on March 5 for a meeting with the president of the institution, Nísia Trindade Lima, and to visit the Immunobiological Technology Institute (Bio-Manguinhos) plant that is producing the Covid-19 Fiocruz vaccine.
Photo: Pedro Paulo Gonçalves
“I greatly admire the work you have you been doing, and we are here to know...
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Data de publicação: 30/04/2021 - 17:22
A study by Fiocruz and WWF-Brasil shows that the wildfires in the Amazon were responsible for the increase in the percentages of hospitalizations due to respiratory problems in the last 10 years (2010-2020) in states with higher numbers of hot spots: Pará, Mato Grosso, Rondônia, Amazonas and Acre. These hospitalizations cost the public treasury almost 1 billion. The survey also points out that the association of the pandemic...
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Data de publicação: 19/04/2021 - 15:55
A “pandemic of inequalities”, which denies people access to water to wash their hands, is one of the factors that have worsened the dissemination of Sars-CoV-2 in Latin America and in the Caribbean. This is the assessment of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and former president of Chile, Michelle Bachelet. A physician herself, last Thursday (April 15) she opened the Advanced Seminaries on Global Health and Health Diplomacy...
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Data de publicação: 18/06/2021 - 09:55
The G7 summit wraps up an important cycle of top-level meetings to evaluate and propose directions for the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Preceded by the G20 Summit on Global Health and the World Health Assembly, both held during the second half of May, the G7 Summit took place last week in Carbsi Bay, Cornwell, United Kingdom, the first to be held after the Trump era.
One of the priority topics was the pandemic. The world had...
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Data de publicação: 07/06/2021 - 13:01
The Independent Panel on Pandemic Preparedness1 released on 11 May adds to the mounting calls for a new Pandemic Treaty that would address gaps in the global governance of threats to global health security. The emerging debate has quickly turned to focus on questions of structure and forms — a United Nations treaty or a framework convention under the auspices of the WHO, and verification and enforcement mechanisms — as well as...
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Data de publicação: 18/06/2021 - 16:49
A study by Public Health England (PHE) showed that applying two doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine results in 92% effectiveness against hospitalization due to the Delta (B.1.617.2) variant of the Sars-CoV-2. The variant, formerly known as the Indian variant, has been spreading through the United Kingdom like wildfire and there have been confirmed cases in Brazil as well. The vaccine has also shown high effectiveness against the Alpha (B.1.1.7)...
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Data de publicação: 24/05/2021 - 17:32
Beatriz Grinsztejn, head of the INI’s Laboratory of Clinical Research on STDs and AIDS, was granted last Wednesday (March 19) the Ward Cates Spirit Award by the HIV Prevention Tests Network (HPTN). Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of the United States, attended the event.
The award was given by Myron Cohen, the main investigator of the network. More than one thousand...
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Data de publicação: 31/05/2021 - 10:16
This Wednesday (26/5), at a Deliberative Session at the Plenary, the Chamber of Deputies approved Bill 2077/2019 that establishes the title of Public Health National Heritage and awards it to Fiocruz. The title is granted to governmental and private non-profit institutions who provide relevant and remarkable services to public health and that have technical, scientific, educational, wellfare activities, activities of social participation,...
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Data de publicação: 09/06/2021 - 09:40
The Bulletin of the Fiocruz COVID-19 Observatory, released last Friday (June 4th), concluded there is a rising trend for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in 12 states, in addition to the Federal District, in epidemiological week 21, between May 23rd and 29th. All regions have worrying figures, mainly those in the South and in the Central-West Brazilian regions. About 96% of SARS cases are caused by the new coronavirus.
The relation...
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Data de publicação: 28/05/2021 - 11:43
In a paper published (5/25) on Nature Medicine, researchers of the Fiocruz Genomic Network and of partner institutions point to the cause of the increase in the number of COVID-19 cases in the state of Amazonas and of the successive replacements of lineages of Sars-CoV-2. The study shows that these factors have been boosted by a combination of reduced social distancing measures and the appearance of a new, more transmissible form of the virus,...
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