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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. Cutaneous leishmaniasis is prevalent in municipalities with large herds where there are higher rates of deforestation and loss of biodiversity.
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A comparison of elderly vaccination data with hospitalization and death records due to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) or COVID-19 (confirmed or suspected) has shown the effectiveness of the two main immunizers used in Brazil in reducing severe cases and hospitalizations. This is indicated by a Technical Note from Fiocruz's COVID-19 Observatory, published this Friday (7/9).
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A diagnostic kit to detect the new coronavirus that can be employed directly by basic health units, providing a result in up to 45 minutes, at a low cost and with high accuracy.
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Published in the United Nations (UN) SDG Action platform, the article Non-communicable diseases: a challenge for global cooperation, authored by the president of Fiocruz, Nísia Trindade Lima, and researcher Carlos Gadelha, highlights the importance of integrated public policies that consider human health in its quality-of-life dimension, avoiding focusing on just a few diseases. "More than looking at a single disease, we need to look at health conditions and health systems.
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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.
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In 2020, research operations did not take place in Antarctica due to the restrictions enforced by the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, the current public health crisis has shown the importance of knowledge in health, of surveillance, and of an integration of human, environmental, and animal health, in order to respond to present and future challenges. For this reason, teams are preparing for new research missions this year and are already debating ways to provide even more robust responses to the Unified Health System (SUS) and to society.
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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 identified in Manaus, Brazil, and currently the dominant strain in the country, as well as by the Beta variant, first detected in South Africa.
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The notion that health crises unfairly and disproportionately affect vulnerable populations was observed and documented during the greatest health crisis of this century. Furthermore, studies have shown that the distribution of COVID-19 is unequal among different ethnic and socioeconomic groups (Horta, 2020 and Wang, 2020) iii.
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Over the past week, the four central units of large processing of molecular tests (RT-PCR) for Covid-19 coordinated by the Ministry of Health, with the support of Fiocruz, achieved the equivalent of 7 million samples processed, which represents about 40% of all testing done in the public system. In addition to processing the tests, Fiocruz is also responsible for their production, having already concluded its committment, signed in 2020 with the Ministry of Health (MS), of delivering 11.7 million molecular tests for Sars-CoV-2.
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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 Center (Cris/Fiocruz) held last Wednesday (June 23rd).
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A study developed in partnership between Fiocruz Pernambuco, the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco (UFRPE) and the Federal Institute of Paraíba (IFPB) carried out an investigation on the evolution over time of the daily numbers of deaths by COVID-19, taking into account the scenario in 43 countries.
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Fiocruz was elected a member of the Joint Coordinating Board of the WHO’s Special Program for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR). The election took place last Thursday (June 17), during the Council’s 44th meeting, giving the Foundation a mandate spanning from January 1st, 2022, to December 31st, 2025.
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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 Ethics Committees in Research of the municipal government and of the Ministry of Health (MS).
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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.
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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) variant, first identified in the UK, with a reduction of 86% in hospitalizations.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Vice-Presidency of Research and Biological Collections (VPPCB) makes available a paper with recommendations to regulate the Nagoya Protocol in Brazil.
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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 two parts: one in the morning and one in the afternoon, in what Paulo Buss, coordinator of CRIS/Fiocruz, defined as "a double journey".
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"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 The Trinity Challenge with the theme Opportunities in information science and data analysis in public health.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 Biomanguinhos/Fiocruz facilities.
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