Fiocruz International News - June 2017

The zika virus infection, antimicrobial resistance (AMR), access to vaccines and medicines, and advances in the conduction of the 2030 Agenda, among other subjects, were addressed by the Foundation in several bilateral and multilateral forums and meetings at the 70th World Health Assembly in Geneve.

According to "Time", Turchi's studies have been part of an "emergency investigation that ultimately proved that Zika does indeed cause microcephaly—something many skeptics doubted".

Two colloquiums at the Fiocruz campus in May discussed public health formation and the role of forming institutions in the governance of health services, programs, and systems in Brazil and Cuba. Public health teachers, directors, and students of institutions in Brazil, Cuba, and other Latin American countries gathered from May 8 to 10 to share and discuss experiences, opportunities, and challenges at the I Latin American Colloquium on Formation in Public Health and at the III Brazil-Cuba Colloquium on Formation in Public Health.