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The decree that regulates the Legal Framework for Science, Technology and Innovation in Brazil was published at the beginning of February in Brasilia. The new rules seek to bring universities closer to companies, making research, scientific and technological development and innovation in the country more dynamic, as well as reducing the bureaucracy in investments for the area.
According to the Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovations and Communications, the new legal framework should simplify the signing of agreements for the promotion of public research, facilitate the…
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Climate changes such as the destruction of ecosystems, deforestation and urbanization contribute to the increase of several infectious diseases in Brazil, such as pulmonary hantavirus syndrome, dengue fever, yellow fever, malaria, trypanosomiasis, leishmaniasis and leptospirosis, a new study found.
In a recently published article, researchers Alessandra Nava, from the Leônidas & Maria Deane Institute (ILMD/Fiocruz Amazonas), Juliana Suieko Shimabukuro, Aleksei A. Chmura, and Sérgio Luiz Bessa Luz concludes that "there is strong evidence that some of these environmental changes will…
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The Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, through the Fiocruz Global Health Center, and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) held a meeting on December 14 at the Fiocruz Campus, in Rio de Janeiro, to evaluate a scientific partnership. The institutions consider developing collaborations in public health care. Areas considered to be priorities for future partnerships include the health of indigenous people, primary health care, infectious diseases, and healthy cities.
On the topic of the health indigenous peoples, common problems between the peoples of the two countries,…
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The Oswaldo Cruz Foundation has signed an international cooperation agreement with the non-profit organization Apoyonline, which promotes communication, exchange and professional development in the area of heritage preservation in the Americas and in Portuguese and Spanish speaking countries, and is headquartered in Maryland, in the United States.
The Memorandum of Understanding between the two institutions is valid for a period of five years, and provides the development of partnerships in the areas of education, research, technological development, communication, information, management and…
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Researchers from the Carlos Chagas Institute (ICC/Fiocruz Paraná) developed an innovative technique that assists in the characterization of structures of homodimeric proteins - macromolecules composed of two identical subunits, which can make possible the development of new drugs, besides allowing a greater understanding of various diseases. The result will have immediate impact on the research of several national and international groups, and was published in the February 2018 issue of Nature Protocols.
“We have developed a new technique that tackles a difficulty of current techniques…
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Dentist Mileni Romero performed community service at a health center for low-income people and worked in the care of political prisoners at a military hospital in Venezuela. At the end of 2016, constant coughing and weakness forced her to go to several physicians in search of a diagnosis, which was given in February 2017. Mileni had tuberculosis, and at a moment's notice, the physician became patient. "The medical treatment is very aggressive, and I had strong reactions. The way is not easy," she said when sharing her experience at the opening of the 48th Union World Conference on Lung…
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Science, technology and innovation are crucial for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), UN’s ambitious target plan for 2030. “With the technology currently available today, we cannot solve the world’s problems”, explains Veerle Vandeweerd, former UN employee and sustainable development expert. With that in mind, in November, the Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO, in Dutch), collectively with other non-profit science and technology institutions, including Fiocruz, will hold a global sustainable technology and innovation conference series, G-STIC, in Brussels,…
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A study conducted by Fiocruz Pernambuco reveals how zika virus got to Brazil, filling a gap in the literature addressing this topic. Among the most frequent hypotheses, the virus was believed to have been introduced in Brazil during the 2014 World Cup (June 12th to July 13th), brought by African travelers. Another theory said the virus had been introduced during the world canoeing championship held in August 2014, in Rio de Janeiro, that welcomed competitors from several Pacific countries affected by zika virus.
However, according to the Revisiting Key Entry Routes of Human Epidemic…
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Every time the topic of congenital malformation caused by Aedes aegypti is brought up, we think of microcephaly caused by zika virus. But, according to new scientific findings, dengue fever, spread by the same well-known vector in Brazil, can increase the chances of neurological problems in an unborn child in 50%. These conclusions were derived from investigations conducted by researchers from Fiocruz Bahia Centro de Integração de Dados e Conhecimentos para Saúde - Cidacs (Health Data and Knowledge Integration Center), Bahia Federal University Instituto de Saúde Coletiva - ISC (…
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Fiocruz was redesignated as Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) Collaborating Center for Public Health and the Environment. The Foundation became a Collaborating Center in Public Health and the Environment in 2010 and this is its redesignation agenda, valid until 2022. The Center is now led by the Vice-Presidency for the Environment, Health Attention and Promotion (VPAAPS), under the coordination of researchers Marcos Menezes and Guilherme Franco Netto.
A Collaborating Center is an institution designated by the General Director at the World Health Organization (WHO) to become part of…
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Border regions are especially sensitive to the transmission of diseases. Despite being used to stop people from crossing from one country to the other, they cannot prevent the dissemination of viruses and other infectious diseases. Additionally, border regions are generally marginalized regions, whose populations are vulnerable to the country's inequalities - including in terms of public policies. Borders are a point of contact between countries and regions, and can be entry routes for epidemics.
In this context, Brazilian and French institutions have partnered to create an International…
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Fiocruz president, Nísia Trindade Lima, and The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) vice-president, Zhang Yaping, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at Fiocruz headquarters, last Wednesday, September 26th. The MoU is the third memorandum entered into between Fiocruz and Chinese scientific institutions, and represents another step in cooperation between these two developing countries. The first document was signed in November 2017 by Fiocruz and the Chinese Center for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC China), and the second one was signed in February 2018 by the Foundation and…
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Created in 2015, the 2030 Agenda gathers UN targets for sustainable development. Health is a transversal target and is covered by all 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), but addressed specifically in Goal 3. The nine targets part of this SDG were analyzed on a new report of the Health System Performance Assessment Program (Proadess), from Instituto de Comunicação e Informação Científica e Tecnológica em Saúde - Icict/Fiocruz (Institute for Scientific and Technological Communication and Information on Health). The analysis was made based on a historical series of indicators proposed for…
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What are the structural factors generating health inequalities in the Americas? How should governments act to overcome such inequalities? To answer these questions, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) gathered twelve experts to set up the Commission on Equity and Health Inequalities in the Americas. Fiocruz former president and current coordinator of Centro de Relações Internacionais em Saúde - Cris/Fiocruz (Fiocruz Global Health Center), Paulo Buss, is one of the members.
The Commission worked on the theme for 2 years and on September 24th it delivered the executive…
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On August 28th, the national secretary of Social Articulation, Henrique Villa, was at Fiocruz to attend Sala de Convidados (Guest Room) show, in Canal Saúde(Fiocruz Open Channel on Health). The show discussed implementation of the UN 2030 Agenda in Brazil. Villa is currently the executive secretary of the National Committee on Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). The committee, composed of eight government members and eight civil society members, with their respective deputies, is the most senior level of the 2030 Agenda in Brazil and is advised by Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica…
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O livro Novas e Velhas Faces da Violência no Século XXI: visão da literatura brasileira do campo da saúde, organizado por Maria Cecília de Souza Minayo e Simone Gonçalves de Assis, conquistou a segunda colocação na categoria Ciências Humanas do Prêmio Abeu 2018. A cerimônia de premiação, promovida pela Associação Brasileira das Editoras Universitárias, aconteceu ontem (5/11), na Cinemateca Brasileira, em São Paulo.
A primeira colocação na mesma categoria ficou com o Dicionário da Língua de Sinais no Brasil: a Libras em suas mãos (Edusp), de Fernando César Capovilla, Walkiria Duarte…
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With almost 20 thousand premature births per year and an estimated neonatal mortality rate of 28 deaths per thousand births, Mozambique has taken an important step towards neonatal health. Last Friday (10/26), the first Breast Milk Bank (BMB) opened with a great party in the country, at Central Hospital Maputo. This is the second facility in Africa following the Brazilian model: Cape Verde has one BMB operating since 2011, and the second facility is under implementation process. Angola will be the next country to have a BMB in Luanda.
The Hospital of Maputo team and authorities celebate the…
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The executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (Unfpa), Natalia Kanem, visited Fiocruz on October 15th. During the visit, Kanem met with the president of the Foundation, Nísia Trindade Lima, and researchers in areas related to population and development.
“These are difficult times for the world and for the defense of rights, but we share values with Fiocruz and one of them is related to partnerships,” declared the executive director of Unfpa. She also emphasized the role of innovation as a priority for the strategy of both institutions.
The executive Director of Unfpa, Natalia…
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Forty years after the Declaration of Alma-Ata ensuring the human universal right to health, the Declaration of Astana was launched at the Global Conference on Primary Health Care, which took place on 25-26 October in Kazakhstan. Fiocruz and the Brazilian Health Council (BHC) reaffirm the commitment of the Declaration of Alma-Ata to the defense of social justice, health for all and overcoming inequalities between and within countries.
Delegation of Fiocruz and CNS to the Global Conference on Primary Health Care in Kazakhstan.
The final declaration was presented in the first day of the event,…
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For the first time, Fiocruz will be one of the cohosts of the Global Sustainable Technology & Innovation Conferences (G-STIC), that takes place in Brussel, Belgium, between 28 and 30 of November. Aiming to promote new technologies with the potential to solve the biggest contemporary challenges in sustainability area, the event will gather heads of state and government, opinion leaders, policy makers and internationally renowned delegates of industry, academia and UN agencies.
G-STIC is in its second year and it will have for the first time health as one of its main themes, for which…
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A group of researchers from the National Institute of Women, Children and Adolescents Health Fernandes Figueira (IFF/Fiocruz), led by the physician Lucia Monteiro from the Pediatric Urodynamics Outpatient Unit, published an article in the international journal Plos One with new results confirming changes that interfere with the normal bladder functioning in infants born of women infected with the zika virus during pregnancy. This is the first global report about urologic sequelae associated with the condition of babies with Congenital Zika Syndrome. Until the publication, urinary…
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The Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) just launched a Twitter account in English. The tool has the purpose of providing institutional news with interest to the international community. Fiocruz already has an international newsletter, which has just completed two years. “The new Twitter account is an addition to the strategy of narrowing the contact with institutions worldwide addressing science, technology and public health topics,” tells Elisa Andries, Fiocruz Social Communication Coordinator. Our English Twitter address is @fiocruz_en.
Now, our Communication Department takes the…
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The newly appointed director of the Pasteur Institute, Department of Technology and Scientific Programs, Cristophe D’Enfert, visited Fiocruz on September 26. D’Enfert came to Brazil with two senior researchers of the French Institute to participate in the 1st Symposium on Fungal Infections Immunopathogenesis, which took place at Carlos Chagas Institute (ICC/Fiocruz Paraná), between September 27 and 29, 2019.
During their time in Rio de Janeiro, they visited Manguinhos campus and Fiocruz Castle and met representatives of the institution at the Center for International Relations in Health (Cris…
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Representatives of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) visited Fiocruz on 30th October for a planning meeting on cooperation between both institutions. Discussions included ways to strengthen the relationship between the institutions to expand the existing partnership between projects or specific laboratories for institutional cooperation, in accordance with the terms of the Memorandum of Understanding signed in 2014.
Director of London School, Peter Piot, and President of Fiocruz, Nísia Trindade Lima. (Foto: Peter Ilicciev)
Peter Piot…
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Twelve multilateral agencies launched on October 24 a joint plan to support governments to accelerate the fulfilment of the health targets of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) during the next 10 years. The plan was launched at an event at the UN headquarters in New York, during the 74th General Assembly, with the presence of the First Ministers of Germany, Angela Merkel, and of Norway, Erna Solberg, of the President of Gana, Nana Akufo-Addo, and of the directors of the twelve agencies.
Developed in the past 18 months, with the collaboration of] Fiocruz, the Global Action Plan for…
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The Symposium “A Health Cooperation Agenda” is organised by Centre Nationale de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and Fiocruz.
As part of the celebration of Fiocruz's 120 years and the 80th anniversary of CNRS, the event aims at strengthening partnership and scientific collaboration bewteen both institutions within the humanities and social sciences domain by exchanging research themes, concerns and agendas.
The Symposium will be held, in English, on 16, 17 and 18 October at Fiocruz and will address the following themes:
1. Global health issues, migration, global epidemics2. Access to…
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Dia 16/10
13h30 – Round table 1 - Global health issues, migration, global epidemics
• Anne Cécile Hoyez, CNRS, ESO
● Frédéric Keck, LAS/ EHES CNRS
● Gustavo Matta, ENSP/Fiocruz
● Marcus Cueto, COC/Fiocruz
15h30 – 17h – Discussion Session
Dia 17/10
9h - Round table 2 - Access to healthcare and health systems, public policies, care of vulnerable populations: from research to the clinic (and back to research).
• Claude-Olivier Doron, SPHERE, MCF Université Paris Diderot
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The Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) and the National Center for Scientific Research of France (CNRS) promote, from 16 to 18 October, the Symposium "A Health Cooperation Agenda". The event, open to the public, marks the signing of the memorandum of technical, scientific and technological cooperation between the two institutions. The Symposium, to be held at the International Salon of the National School of Public Health (Ensp / Fiocruz), aims to strengthen the partnership between the two institutions and create opportunities for scientific collaboration between researchers through debate on…
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The scientific journal The Lancet has published an article about the process of implementation and expansion of the Brazilian Public Health System (Sistema Único de Saúde [SUS]). Led by a group of researchers from Harvard University, the article Brazil's unified health system: the first 30 years and prospects for the future was also attended by the researcher of the Sergio Arouca National School of Public Health (Ensp/Fiocruz), Ligia Giovanella, who contributed to the analysis of the characterization of SUS and the organization of Primary Health Care over these years. “The article makes it…
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