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Professors and researchers may apply for the scholarships under the Institutional Internationalization Program - PrInt Fiocruz-Capes. The selection for PhDs with Experience Abroad is now reopened after a postponement due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Many of us have greatly been affected by Covid-19 - from loss of jobs, closure of schools, travel bans, movement restriction and much more. However, some groups of people have been more affected other than others, and the more vulnerable in the community, societies and groups have borne the greatest brunt. The disease has affected men, women and people of other genders differently.
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Researchers from the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation develop a plan to support the fight against Covid-19 among indigenous peoples. One of the goals is to intensify surveillance and improve information about the impacts of the pandemic on these populations, through six lines of action. The initiative mobilized different units and vice-presidencies and was highlighted by the president of Fiocruz, Nísia Trindade Lima.
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Inscrições abertas até o dia 7 de outubro
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Profissionais da Cogic são as autoras do capítulo ‘As cidades e a pandemia: efeitos, desafios e transformações’
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O Livreto de Quarentena, elaborado pela Creche Fiocruz, chega a sua 18ª edição.
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Assinatura do acordo é mais um passo decisivo para a produção de uma vacina contra a Covid-19 no Brasil
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In partnership with an international research group, Fiocruz has obtained funding to conduct real-time analyses of gender dynamics during the Covid-19 pandemic. The research will be made possible through a $1.6 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to Simon Fraiser University (Canada), which is passing on some of the resources to other institutions to include more countries in this analysis.
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Chikungunya is a disease caused by a virus, which is transmitted through the bite of the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which may cause symptoms like fever, skin rashes and body pain. According to the Ministry of Health, from January to June this year, more than 48,300 probable cases of the disease were reported in Brazil. The disease is mainly concentrated in the North-Eastern region, which presented the greatest incidence rates, with 48.3 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants. Only the State of Bahia concentrated approximately 45% of the probable chikungunya cases in the country.
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Data from Fiocruz InfoGripe show that many states are still climbing up the first wave of new weekly cases of Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI). This is the ongoing situation in all states of the Southern region, in addition to Sergipe and Mato Grosso do Sul. Other states are already showing signs of the beginning of the so-called “second wave”.
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Na manhã do dia 22 de julho (quarta-feira) a Fiocruz iniciou um ciclo de seminários on-line cuja discussão central se baseia nos efeitos, possibilidades, limites e desafios do trabalho remoto.
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A study led by the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC/Fiocruz) and by the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF), in collaboration with hospitals and research centers in Rio de Janeiro, provides new information that helps understand one of the most severe and frequent complications observed in Covid-19 patients hospitalized in intensive care units (ICUs).
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Going back to school may represent an extra risk for more than 9.3 million Brazilians (4.4% of the overall population) who are elderly or adults (18 years and up) with chronic health conditions and at risk for Covid-19 infection. This is due to the fact that they live in the same household as children and teenagers of school age (3 to 17 years old).
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A proposta inicial de texto do Programa de Preservação Digital de Acervos da Fiocruz está disponível na Intranet Fiocruz até o dia 10/8
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Serão apoiados projetos com até dois anos de duração em cinco linhas de pesquisa e que devem envolver pelo menos três dos cinco países do bloco
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Estudo busca compreender o ambiente e a jornada de atividade, o vínculo com a instituição, a vida do profissional na pré-pandemia e as consequências do atual processo de trabalho
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A obra tem o objetivo de modernizar e tornar a edificação ainda mais segura para trabalhadores, visitantes e acervos abrigados no Pavilhão Mourisco
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Atos processuais e prescricionais serão retomados.
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Originally published at Reports in Public Health
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Está disponível o sétimo volume do Boletim Epidemiológico sobre a situação da Covid-19 entre trabalhadores ativos, aposentados e alunos da Fiocruz. A publicação contém atualizações que incluem as semanas epidemiológicas 26 e 27
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Participam dos debates professoras que falarão sobre a pandemia, partindo dos seus campos de atuação
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Fiocruz president, Nísia Trindade Lima, is one of the members of the Lancet Covid-19 Commission. Led by American economist Jeffrey Sachs, the commission is an interdisciplinary initiative that includes leaders in health sciences, business, finances, and public policies, to formulate recommendations to overcome the challenges brought by the pandemic.
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With the goal of better understanding the beginning of the novel coronavirus pandemic in Brazil, researchers of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) have carried out a wide genetic study involving almost a hundred samples from patients from all Brazilian regions, infected by the SARS-CoV-2 virus in the early moments of the pandemic in national territory.
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Researchers of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC/Fiocruz) have identified a new strain of the influenza virus in a patient in the city of Ibiporã, in the southern state of Paraná. Analysis have pointed to the presence of the influenza virus A(H1N2)v, which causes infection in pigs. The case was reported to the Ministry of Health, which then notified the World Health Organization (WHO), according to the international health regulation.
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The international clinical trial HPTN 083 has proven that PrEP (HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis) containing CAB-LA (long-acting injectable Cabotegravir) used every eight weeks yielded efficacy superior to Truvada in the prevention of infection by the virus. “This is an unprecedented success for the field of HIV prevention.
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Cogic elaborou um aparato para condicionamento de ar em UTIs em crises de emergência, sobretudo em regiões mais pobres do Brasil
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Deaths in the city of Rio de Janeiro have increased by 64% in ths months of April and May 2020, when compared to the average in this same period in the last 3 years. In addition, a detailed analysis of the records shows a disturbing figure: deaths out of hospitals (both in health units, clinics, and other basic healthcare venues and at home) have practically doubled.
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Three lineages of the novel coronavirus have been introduced in the state of Amazonas, according to the study run by the Leônidas & Maria Deane Institute (ILMD/Fiocruz Amazônia), which investigated samples from the municipalities of Manacapuru, Autazes, Careiro, and Manaquiri (in the metropolitan region), Santa Isabel do Rio Negro (Rio Negro), Tabatinga, and Santo Antônio do Içá (in the Alto Solimões area), and Manicoré (Madeira river), in addition to the state capital, Manaus.
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United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has approved the creation of the Oswaldo Cruz Chair of Science, Health and Culture.
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