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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. Ahead of the study, researcher Julia Smith, from Simon Fraiser University, explains that the Gender and Covid-19 project is unique in focusing on gender-related effects on responses to…
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O livro Diálogos sobre acessibilidade, inclusão e distanciamento social: territórios existenciais na pandemia é lançado, em formato digital, em meio à pandemia de Covid-19 nos trazendo a necessidade de olharmos com atenção para as vulnerabilidades das pessoas com deficiência. Esta é uma iniciativa do IdeiaSUS, sob a coordenação da Presidência da Fiocruz, em parceria com o Comitê Fiocruz pela Acessibilidade e Inclusão das Pessoas com Deficiência, o Departamento de Direitos Humanos, Saúde e Diversidade Cultural da Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sergio Arouca (Dihs/Ensp/…
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O Programa Institucional de Internacionalização (PrInt Fiocruz-Capes) está reabrindo dois editais: o primeiro, para professor visitante no exterior; e o outro, para doutor com experiência no exterior. As inscrições podem ser feitas até o dia 7 de outubro. Os interessados devem ficar atentos às mudanças sofridas em função da pandemia de Covid-19. Os calendários das chamadas foram alterados: agora, a viagem está prevista para ter início entre janeiro e março de 2021, e, por isso, há também novos prazos para envio da documentação.
A Coordenação Geral de Educação da Fiocruz (CGE) lembra,…
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A Fundação Oswaldo Cruz e a AstraZeneca assinaram, na sexta-feira (31/7), um documento que dará base para o acordo entre os laboratórios sobre a transferência de tecnologia e produção de 100 milhões de doses da vacina contra a Covid-19, caso seja comprovada a sua eficácia e segurança. O entendimento é o passo seguinte às negociações realizadas pelo governo federal, a Embaixada Britânica e o laboratório AstraZeneca.
O Ministério da Saúde prevê um repasse de R$ 522,1 milhões para processamento da vacina. Outro R$ 1,3 bilhão é referente à encomenda tecnológica, que permitirá o recebimento do…
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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. “This is a joint action by the Foundation, present throughout the national territory, to support the confrontation of this serious humanitarian crisis that affects indigenous peoples in…
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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.
Various questions and concerns were raised during a webinar organised by The Global Health Network, “Understanding the gendered dimensions of COVID-19: Experiences from Brazil, Canada, and the United…
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On April 19, Fiocruz and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) signed an international cooperation agreement aimed at compliance with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Signed by Fiocruz President, Nísia Trindade Lima, and ECLAC Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, in Santiago do Chile, where the Latin American and Caribbean Countries Forum on Sustainable Development was held, the document provides for collaboration among the institutions in initiatives that link socio-economic development and health.
Planned activities include joint development and…
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President of Fiocruz, Nísia Trindade Lima, participated on April 20 in the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development held in Santiago, Chile. Organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Government of Mexico, the meeting brought together representatives from 28 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, including 35 non-governmental organizations, intergovernmental specialized organizations and agencies of the United Nations system, as well as more than 300 participants from the private sector, academia…
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The strategic collaboration between the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and Fiocruz, the expanded concept of health, and the establishment of a Health Commission by PAHO to discuss the Alma Ata gaps were the main issues of the meeting between Carissa Etienne, PAHO Director General, and Nísia Trindade Lima, president of Fiocruz, on March 13, at Fiocruz Brasilia.
Trindade Lima pointed out that the Unified Health System (SUS) is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, and the joint work between PAHO and Fiocruz over the decades has been strategic for the preservation and advancement…
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The mental health of Brazilian women can be impaired by prejudice due to skin color, both in the personal and group dimension, increasing up to 70% the chance of suffering common mental disorders (CMD). This was the conclusion of a study conducted by Maurício Barreto, researcher and coordinator of the Center for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (Cidacs) of Fiocruz Bahia, together with researchers from the Institute of Collective Health and the Institute of Humanities Arts and Sciences Professor Milton Santos, both from the Federal University of Bahia.
The research was described in…
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A paradigm shift that allows the manager to make decisions based on clear and objective criteria. This is how Sérgio Rabelo, advisor of Vice Presidency of Environment, Healthcare and Promotion (VPAAPS/Fiocruz) referred to the Climate Vulnerability System (SisVuClima), presented at Closing Seminar of Population Vulnerability to Climate Change Indicators Project, held in Brasilia, on March 28. The project, developed since 2014, results from a partnership between the Ministry of the Environment (MOE) and Fiocruz, and was executed in six Brazilian states: Amazonas, Espírito Santo, Mato Grosso do…
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The study of the use of the Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) to HIV, coordinated by the researcher Beatriz Grinsztejn, head of the Laboratory of Clinical Research in STD and AIDS of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases (INI/Fiocruz), was the subject matter of an editorial and article published in February in one of the most prestigious international scientific journals, The Lancet HIV. The editorial ¡PrEP Ya! Latin America wants PreP, and Brazil leads the way, signed by Jerome Galea (Harvard), Ricardo Baruch (Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública/Mexico) and Brandon Brown (University of…
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From the left, Jeffrey Berthony, immunologist and researcher at Fiocruz Minas and George Washington (GWU), Flávia Ribeiro, infectious agent and researcher at the Research Center of Hospital das Clínicas, and David Diemert, infectious disease specialist and professor at GWU (Photo: Fiocruz Minas)
Researchers of the Hospital das Clínicas of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), George Washington University (USA) and Fiocruz Minas are participating in a large phase II/IIb clinical trial of an experimental vaccine against zika virus infection in Belo Horizonte. Made with part of…
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Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that carry Wolbachia bacteria have the reduced ability to transmit Mayaro arbovirus. The finding is in an article published in the latest issue of the online scientific journal Scientific Reports, which integrates the Nature group and covers all areas of natural sciences. The study was conducted by a group of researchers from the René Rachou Institute (Fiocruz Minas), located in the city of Belo Horizonte, and resulted in the article Wolbachia significantly impacting the vector competence of Aedes aegypti for Mayaro virus.
The research was done from a…
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Marilelle at Fiocruz inaugural class of 2018 school year, on March 8 (Photo: Peter Ilicciev)
“Police incursions in slums are for what and for whom?". This was how the city councilwoman and human rights defender Marielle Franco (PSOL-RJ), executed on March 14 in a still unsolved crime, expressed her indignation at the daily violence suffered by slum dwellers during a public act for peace and citizenship held in 2017, in front of the Castle of Fiocruz, in Manguinhos (RJ).
For being a resident of Maré, a nearby slum, the councilwoman used to say that Fiocruz was like a second house,…
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Patricia Brasil, Fiocruz researcher in infectious diseases, receiving the 2018 Christophe Mérieux Prize at the Institut de France (Photo: Fondation Merieux).
The leading researcher at the Infectious Diseases Laboratory of the National Institute of Infectology (INI/Fiocruz), Patrícia Brasil, was the winner of the 2018 Christophe Mérieux Prize, offered by the Fondation Christophe et Rodolphe Mérieux and the Institut de France. The award recognizes the academic trajectory of the scientist and the relevance of her study on pregnant women after infection with the Zika virus and…
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The results of the National Survey on Prevalence of Schistosomiasis Mansoni and Geohelminthiasis, a study conducted by Fiocruz Minas under the coordination of researcher Naftale Katz, show a reduction in the number of cases of these diseases throughout the country. The rate of positivity for schistosomiasis fell to 1%, a significant drop compared to previous investigations, which recorded a rate of 10% in 1953 and 6.9% in 1977.
Regarding geohelminthiasis, the decrease in the number of people infected is even greater, in all locations investigated. In Maranhão, for example, the proportion of…
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What is the situation of the families of children affected by zika virus more than two years after the epidemic in Brazil? What social dimensions of the disease were ignored, and how to remove them from invisibility? How is discussion about the virus inseparable from a debate on women's reproductive rights and abortion, for example? What should be an ethical approach for research subjects with such a sensitive subject matter?
These and other issues were on the agenda on April 26 and 27 at Fiocruz, at the workshop: Global Health: the zika outbreak and the international intersections. Organized…
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Cutbacks to social programmes in Brazil could lead to more avoidable childhood hospitalisations and deaths compared to maintaining current funding. The findings come from new research, published on May in the journal PLOS Medicine and led by researchers at Imperial College London, Fiocruz and Universidade Federal da Bahia in Brazil.
Until the publication of the study, there has been little evidence on how the economic crisis, austerity measures, and reducing the coverage of such social programmes, could affect children’s health in middle income countries such as Brazil.
Using statistical…
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The role of health diplomacy in the political process of integration in Latin America and the Caribbean was the subject of a paper by Fiocruz researchers Paulo Buss and Sebatián Tobar, published on the April issue of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia on Global Public Health.
"While originally a mechanism for political and economic integration, health is now an important component of all the integration processes, with growing social, political, and economic importance in each country and in the region, currently integrating the most important regional and global negotiations", the paper states…
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The Memorandum of Understanding of the Brazil-China cientific partnership was signed in February, in Shenzhen.
The Chinese Academy of Sciences and Fiocruz scientists will hold their first academic workshop after the signing ceremony that laid the grounds for the creation of the China-Brazil Infectious Disease Research and Prevention Center (IDRPC). The seminar entitled “First IDRPC Academic Meeting” will occur on the 30th of July in Fiocruz and is open to the public. Neglected diseases, as well as those linked to epidemics such as Zika and Dengue, will be the main topics of the…
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Two colloquiums at the Fiocruz campus in May discussed public health formation and the role of forming institutions in the governance of health services, programs, and systems in Brazil and Cuba.
Public health teachers, directors, and students of institutions in Brazil, Cuba, and other Latin American countries gathered from May 8 to 10 to share and discuss experiences, opportunities, and challenges at the I Latin American Colloquium on Formation in Public Health and at the III Brazil-Cuba Colloquium on Formation in Public Health.
The main…
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Fiocruz, along with more than 100 Brazilian and international organizations, published an open letter in late May defending policies aimed at reducing drug-related harm, rather than repressive and violent approaches.
The document is named "The Letter from Manguinhos," a neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro where the main campus of Fiocruz is located, which often suffers from drug-war shootings.
The text criticizes the current model of drugs policy, for "criminalizing, imprisoning and stigmatizing the poorest groups living in marginal regions, homeless people, black and/or…
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The HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (ImPrEP) project in Brazil, Mexico and Peru, was officially launched with a ceremony held on July 12 at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation campus in Rio de Janeiro. Coordinated by the National Institute of Infectology Evandro Chagas (INI/Fiocruz), the project aims to contribute to the implementation of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) as a strategy for HIV prevention in the three countries, focusing on population groups most exposed to the virus. The Ministry of Health, through the Department of Surveillance, Prevention and Control of STIs, HIV/AIDS and Viral…
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A delegation of health and genomics experts from China visited the Fiocruz campus in Rio de Janeiro, in the last week of June, to discuss future scientific partnerships between Brazil and the Asian country. In several appointments, meetings and lectures, the two parties discussed areas of mutual interest, getting closer to a scientific cooperation agreement.
In a special session jointly organized by the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC/Fiocruz), the Center for Technological Development in Health (CDTS/Fiocruz) and Fiocruz Global Health Center (Cris/Fiocruz), on June 27, Chinese…
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Repeated discontinuities, tendencies to think in the short term to contain emergencies only, a sometimes tense and sometimes complementary relationship between different cultures, and in the midst of it, a series of practices and efforts to create an inclusive and egalitarian health: these are the four main characteristics of the history of health in Latin America, according to one of its greatest experts, Peruvian historian Marcos Cueto, professor of the Postgraduate Program in History of Sciences and Health from Casa de Oswaldo Cruz (COC/Fiocruz).
In April, Cueto and Steven Palmer, from the…
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One year and a half after the start of the international health emergency of microcephaly related to congenital zika virus infection, a new study coordinated by specialists from the National Institute of Women, Children and Adolescents Health Fernandes Figueira (IFF/Fiocruz) found that ocular abnormalities can be the only initial finding of infants whose mothers were infected during pregnancy. According to researchers, the finding suggests the need to rethink the evaluation criteria in neonatal screening to include sunken eye exams for all infants with potential maternal exposure to…
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During the next five years, researchers Letícia Cardoso, from the National School of Public Health (Ensp/Fiocruz), and Fátima Pina, from the Institute of Communication and Scientific and Technological Information in Health (Icict/Fiocruz), will be committed to answer the following question: can cities in Latin America be healthier? The question is raised on the basis of the international project Building healthier, equitable and environmentally sustainable cities: Lessons from Latin America. The initiative is led by Drexel University and will involve 11 institutions from Latin America and…
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Ambulatorio Souza Araujo [Souza Araujo Ambulatory], a care unit that provides care to patients with Hansen's disease within the sphere of the Unified Health System (SUS), and Laboratório de Hanseníase [Hansen's Disease Laboratory], both linked to the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC/Fiocruz), remain in line with international standards of excellence. The recognition was evaluated by the Joint Commission International (JCI), the traditional United States accreditation commission, after a series of benchmarks on infrastructure, service and team performance. The procedure revalidates the…
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A study led by the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC/Fiocruz) in partnership with the Pasteur Institute in France points to the potential of re-emergence of the urban transmission of yellow fever in Brazil, reinforcing the importance of preventive measures such as vaccination and vector control. In laboratory, scientists measured the efficacy of urban and wild mosquitoes in Rio de Janeiro with regards to the potential of transmitting the yellow fever virus. The data indicate that Rio de Janeiro insects of the species Aedes aegypti, Aedes albopictus, Haemagogus leucocelaenus, and…
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