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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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In a study coordinated by the Institute of Scientific and Technological Communication and Information in Health (Icict), Fiocruz has mapped the impact of fires on children’s health in the Amazon region. The survey concluded that in the areas most affected by the fire, the number of children hospitalized with respiratory problems doubled. There were about 2.5 thousand extra hospital admissions each month, in May and June 2019, in approximately 100 municipalities of the Legal Amazon, in particular in the states of Pará, Rondônia, Maranhão and Mato Grosso. This resulted in an additional expense…
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Health in the Americas has seen a dramatic improvement in the past decades, but many people are being left behind. This is one of the main conclusions of the report called Just societies: Health equity and dignified lives launched on October 1st, during the 57th meeting of the Directing Council of the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), held at the PAHO headquarters, in Washington.
The report gathers evidence of the relationship between health and social factors, such as socioeconomic class, ethnic group, gender, sexual orientation, disability, migrant situation - individually or…
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The 1st Brics Workshop on Human Milk Bank, held in Brasilia from August 28th to August 30th, resulted in the construction of an international agenda and a commitment signature to mobilize efforts to expand and share knowledge and technologies focused on food and neonata nutritional safety; and childhood care, with the right to health as its central value. The action will be coordenated and it will have as reference, the Fiocruz Brazilian Human Milk Bank Network (rBLH-BR) The workshop was part of Fiocruz's 120th anniversary celebrations.
Fiocruz's Brazilian Network of Human Milk Banks (rBLH-…
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The history of global health and of the World Health Organization (WHO) is often told by the few voices that are in positions of command. However, the multilateral historical perspective and research in human sciences can contribute with new discoveries that challenge the idea that global health decisions are taken by a handful of actors from dominant countries. This is the proposal of the researcher of the University of York and head of WHO Collaborating Center on Global Health History, Sanjoy Bhattacharya, who was at Fiocruz for the 135th Global Health History Seminar, with the theme…
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The growth of unemployment associated with the reduction of public investments in health and social programs increased the mortality rate among adults in Brazil in the period of 2012 to 2017. The finding is a study conducted by Fiocruz, University of London and Fundação Getulio Vargas, which evaluated the effects of the recession on the number of deaths and verified whether social protection programs affected in any way. The research was published in The Lancet Global Health, a renowned scientific journal in the health area.
To reach the results, the scientists were based on data from the…
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The Novartis Group and the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) signed, in Rio de Janeiro, a Memorandum of Understanding to formalize the cooperation intention of the two institutions in teaching, research and technological development projects to combat neglected diseases such as Leprosy, Chagas disease, malaria and sickle cell disease. The partnership contemplates the elaboration and joint implementation of initiatives in health research and the academic exchange of researchers and students, in addition to prioritizing the sharing of information and technical documentation, organization of…
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Patricia Brasil, head of INI’s Clinical Research Laboratory on Acute Febrile Ilnesses, was invited by Nature Medicine to write a profile describing her scientific path for the October issue of the journal. With the title Never shy from infectious-disease mysteries, the profile describes the decisive moments that led the infectologist to dedicate her career to research and is part of a special series celebrating the 25th anniversary of the edition of Nature dedicated to medicine.
Patricia Brasil
Patricia Brazil studied medicine at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro before doing medical…
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Representatives of Fiocruz, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and ministries and institutes of Health of African countries gathered at the Foundation, between October 9th and 11th, to define the priorities of themes and strategies for the next five years of the partnership. The institutions signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in July and this was the second planning workshop to implement the actions.
“I would like to reinforce my institutional commitment to this UNFPA agenda, which is to think about rights from the perspective of the populations. In the specific case of this…
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Fiocruz and one of the main French research institutions, the National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS, in the French acronym), have made official the continuity of a historical partnership, with a celebratory three-day symposium and the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MdU). From 16 to 18 October, the joint event A cooperative agenda for health promoted exchanges between social and human science researchers applied to the health sector, and marked the celebration of the anniversaries of the two institution - together, they carry two centuries of history on their backs. In 2019…
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After a pause of more than two years in the export of yellow fever vaccines, Brazil has resumed its installed capacity, by means of Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), to meet 100% of the national demand as well as to sell to other countries. Between 2017 and 2018, the country suspended its exports of the vaccine to focus its production on the Brazilian population, which was then facing an outbreak of the disease. Another important factor for this return to production was the approval of Law 13.801/2019, which determines that the resources acquired with the export of these vaccines is to be…
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In 2017, Fiocruz presidency instituted the "Fiocruz Strategy for 2030 Agenda" (EFA 2030), considering the institution's historical, conjuncture and future prospecting analysis. The strategy incorporates the United Nations document into Fiocruz's strategic development and work program in the medium and long term, with an understanding that builds on the social determination of health and related topics, social science studies, the ecology of knowledge and critical theory of innovation and development models.
The 2030 Agenda has a strong convergence of values with Fiocruz and our historical…
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The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is an action plan that will guide the work of the United Nations and its Member States towards sustainable development by 2030. Approved at an international summit held on 25-27 September 2015, the Agenda was agreed by the 193 UN Member States and includes a Declaration, 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 goals. The document also has a section on means of implementation and a mechanism for assessment and follow-up.
The 2030 Agenda is universal, indivisible and integrated. It synthesizes aspirations and integrates the economic, social…
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In 2017, Fiocruz’s presidency instituted the Fiocruz Strategy for the 2030 Agenda, considering the institution’s historical, conjuncture and future prospecting analysis. The strategy incorporates the United Nations document into Fiocruz’s strategic development and work program in the medium and long term, with an understanding that builds on the social determination of health and related topics, science social studies, the ecology of knowledge and critical theory on innovation and development models.
The Foundation’s historical matrix is based on a strong correlation between health,…
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The “Fiocruz Strategy for the 2030 Agenda” is taken as a reference for Fiocruz’s planning process, priority setting and policy strategies. By giving centrality to the United Nations document, its objectives and goals begin to permeate the planning process, definition of priorities and political strategies of Fiocruz’s Presidency, Units and collegiate bodies (Technical Chambers, DC and Internal Congress).
In this sense, 10 referrals are structuring:
- Establish a continuous flow between the preparation of the VIII Internal Congress and the work of the Fiocruz Strategy Committee for the 2030…
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No próximo dia 22 de novembro, o Campus Fiocruz Mata Atlântica (CFMA) irá receber a presença do Engenheiro Agrônomo, Marcos José de Abreu, conhecido como Marquito. Ele irá apresentar seus estudos no evento Roda de conversa sobre Compostagem e Agricultura urbana. O encontro gratuito, marcado para começar às 10h, será realizado na sala Guabiroba.
Marquito é natural de Florianópolis e é pós-graduado em Agroecossistemas com título de Mestrado pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Ele é referência no Brasil em Compostagem, Agricultura Urbana, Permacultura, Agroecologia e Alimentação. Além…
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Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), the University of the Republic of Uruguay (UdelaR) and Pasteur Institute of Montevideo signed a memorandum of understanding for future partnerships between the institutions. The meeting was held at UdelaR’s headquarters in Montevideo, on October 28.
The meeting was attended by the director of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC/Fiocruz), José Paulo Gagliardi Leite; Fiocruz’s Vice-Presidents Rodrigo Correa de Oliveira (Biological Research and Collections) and Marco Krieger (Production and Innovation in Health), representing Fiocruz’s President, Nísia Trindade…
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