Representatives of 19 countries gather in Rio to evaluate yellow fever resurgence in Latin America and Africa. Most of the causes for recent outbreaks are the same in the two continents: among others, the disordered progress of human activities on the environment, changes in land use, and the difficulty of vector control.
In interview about the 2030 Agenda, Fiocruz coordinator Carlos Gadelha says that "without a public, universal, free and quality health system, Brazil will not reach the SDGs – nor in 2030 nor never. If, instead of adopting a model of collective health for all, we adopt a policy that fragments the health sector in a public system for the poor and a private one for the rich, we will be against the 2030 Agenda."
A new software made by Fiocruz enables the planning of actions in the medium and long term to reduce the impacts of climate changes such as reductions in precipitations volume, prolonged droughts and temperature increases in the Amazon.
