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The implications of the fact that the pandemic is hitting younger people in Brazil are the subject of the paper Younger Brazilians hit by COVID-19 – What are the implications?, by researchers of the Fiocruz COVID-19 Observatory, published in a magazine of The Lancet group on July 14th. Following the observation that COVID-19 cases in younger age groups (adults between 20 and 59 years of age) that evolved into severe conditions and resulted in deaths have become more frequent, the study highlights that this age group may be highly affected by the so-called long COVID or post-COVID…
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Dia: 15/07
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No próximo dia 15 de julho de 2021, as 11h, Ricardo José de Paula Souza e Guimarães do Instituto Evandro Chagas do Ministério da Saúde - Brasil, apresenta o seminário: Geotecnologias Aplicadas para Estudos de Doenças Transmitidas pela Água no Brasil, no 3º Webinar da Série ONWARD sobre Água e Doenças relacionadas, suas ligações com a qualidade ambiental, métodos de monitoramento e soluções.
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A saúde humana é constantemente influenciada por parâmetros sociodemográficos e ambientais. A aplicabilidade das…
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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). Entitled Analysis of the COVID-19 vaccination effectiveness in Brazil for hospitalization or death cases, the note evaluates individuals immunized with at least the first dose and those immunized with both doses.…
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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. The innovation, which may help fight COVID-19, has had its patent deposited after a year of work by researchers of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC/Fiocruz), the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), and the Federal Institute of Santa Catarina (IFSC), in a partnership with the company SPK Solutions.
The diagnostic kit (Photo: André Pitaluga)
Simple, quick and cheap, this diagnostic kit identifies the…
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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. The worst thing that can happen for sustainability and development is fragmented actions. The system must be prepared to…
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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. To make this possible, a predictive control system was developed within the CoVida Network, the result of a scientific collaboration between researchers from the Center for Data Integration and Health Knowledge (Cidacs/Fiocruz…
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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. The upcoming missions of the FioAntar project (…
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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. In these…
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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. They also highlight the importance of prejudice and systemic racism as elements that, when intertwined with biological characteristics, behaviors, and environmental factors, lead people to a situation of inequitable social…
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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. The tests are still being delivered according to the Ministry’s…
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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).
Mediated by Regina Ungerer, physician, and researcher of Cris/Fiocruz, the webinar…
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A primeira parte da mostra 'Ciência, saúde e sociedade' reuniu 30 filmes do acervo da VideoSaúde que retratam, em suas diversas linguagens, a importância do Sistema Único de Saúde e de seus profissionais e técnicos. Os títulos também lançam olhar aos cientistas no campo da saúde, entendida em seu sentido ampliado, que vai além dos aspectos biológicos e perpassa questões econômicas, sociais, de moradia, trabalho e cultura, entre outras.
Diante da pandemia de Covid-19, os vídeos selecionados trouxeram elementos importantes para a reflexão sobre o SUS, a ciência…
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Esta página especial reúne as Perguntas e Respostas sobre o Coronavírus SARS-CoV-2 e a doença Covid-19 publicadas no Portal Fiocruz. Como se trata de uma doença recente, a cada momento novas descobertas estão sendo feitas. Por isso, as orientações técnicas podem mudar e é sempre importante verificar as datas de publicação dos conteúdos e buscar por informações atualizadas em sites de instituições confiáveis, como a Organização Mundial da Saúde, o Ministério da Saúde e a Fiocruz.
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The International Relations and Global Health Center (CRIS), an advisory board of the Presidency of FIOCRUZ, was created in 2009 to coordinate and support the Foundation’s international activities.
Responding to the growing demands for international exchange, the purpose of CRIS is to establish a level of excellence for affirming and developing FIOCRUZ as a strategic public institution for Brazil in the global health scenario.
The Center is responsible for cooperation and exchange with foreign organizations, countries, and institutions.
Within FIOCRUZ, CRIS is responsible for coordinating and…
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