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Following the agreement between Fiocruz and The Global Health Network, the course Speech therapy healthcare: oral sensory-motor disorders in the field of neonatology is now available at the Global Health Training Centre in three languages: English, Spanish and Portuguese. The course was developed by a multiprofessional team from the National Institute of Women, Children and Adolescents Health Fernandes Figueira (IFF/Fiocruz) and aimed at speech therapists and other health workers interested in the topic of dysphagia (difficulty in swallowing).
The course Coordinator, Mariangela Bartha, has a…
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A study by Public Health England (PHE) showed that applying two doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine results in 92% effectiveness against hospitalization due to the Delta (B.1.617.2) variant of the Sars-CoV-2. The variant, formerly known as the Indian variant, has been spreading through the United Kingdom like wildfire and there have been confirmed cases in Brazil as well. The vaccine has also shown high effectiveness against the Alpha (B.1.1.7) variant, first identified in the UK, with a reduction of 86% in hospitalizations.
The study by the British government health agency, published as pre-…
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Led by Australia, a new trial will investigate whether it is possible to predict who remains susceptible to the variants of Sars-CoV-2, even when they received a vaccine against COVID-19 or have already been sick due to the virus. The research will be exploring the immune response of vaccines specific against the disease in Brazilian health workers, in order to identify biomarkers that can indicate whether someone will be protected (or remains at risk of contracting COVID-19), if exposed to a variant of Sars-CoV-2.
The study received philanthropic financing from the Bill & Melinda Gates…
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The G7 summit wraps up an important cycle of top-level meetings to evaluate and propose directions for the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Preceded by the G20 Summit on Global Health and the World Health Assembly, both held during the second half of May, the G7 Summit took place last week in Carbsi Bay, Cornwell, United Kingdom, the first to be held after the Trump era.
One of the priority topics was the pandemic. The world had high expectations for the summit, attended by chiefs of State and of government of seven of the world’s largest economies, holders of about 60% of the…
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Published in The New England Journal of Medicine, the results of a randomized controlled trial (RCT) showed a reduction of 77% of cases of dengue fever in areas that received the Aedes aegypti mosquito with Wolbachia, in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. This is the same technique employed in Brazil (the Wolbachia method), an initiative led by Fiocruz in the country.
The study also reveals an 86% reduction in hospitalizations in areas treated with Wolbachia, proof that the effectiveness of the method is equivalent for all four serotypes of dengue fever. “These results show how Wolbachia can be a…
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The Vice-Presidency of Research and Biological Collections (VPPCB) makes available a paper with recommendations to regulate the Nagoya Protocol in Brazil.
On June 2, 2021, Brazil became a party to the Nagoya Protocol, after depositing its letter of ratification at the United Nations (UN) Secretariat on March 4, 2021.By joining the Nagoya Protocol, Brazil took a very relevant step to be inserted in the global context of access to genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge and benefit sharing, however it is necessary to adjust its domestic legislation (Law 13,123 / 2015…
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Still in the heat of the World Health Assembly and the G20 Global Health Summit, held at the end of May, the Advanced Seminar of the Fiocruz's Global Health Center (CRIS/Fiocruz) brought, last Wednesday (6/10), the main conclusions and challenges for this biennium, in a challenging conjuncture during the COVID-19 pandemic. To account for such a broad issue, the webinar Global Health Agenda 2021 brought together eight debaters and was held in two parts: one in the morning and one in the afternoon, in what Paulo Buss, coordinator of CRIS/Fiocruz, defined as "a double journey".
The 74th Assembly…
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"Data and information will be fundamental to understand the dynamics of health inequality reduction processes and establish better public policies and institutional arrangements to respond to and prevent upcoming crises, while contributing to the Unified Health System [SUS, acronym in Portuguese for the Brazilian public health system] improvement", said Nísia Trindade this Monday (September 7), during the event organized by The Trinity Challenge with the theme Opportunities in information science and data analysis in public health. Besides the president of Fiocruz, the event also counted…
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The Bulletin of the Fiocruz COVID-19 Observatory, released last Friday (June 4th), concluded there is a rising trend for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in 12 states, in addition to the Federal District, in epidemiological week 21, between May 23rd and 29th. All regions have worrying figures, mainly those in the South and in the Central-West Brazilian regions. About 96% of SARS cases are caused by the new coronavirus.
The relation between COVID-19 and maternal deaths is another highlight of this release. Pregnant women and women who have recently given birth are increasingly becoming…
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The Independent Panel on Pandemic Preparedness1 released on 11 May adds to the mounting calls for a new Pandemic Treaty that would address gaps in the global governance of threats to global health security. The emerging debate has quickly turned to focus on questions of structure and forms — a United Nations treaty or a framework convention under the auspices of the WHO, and verification and enforcement mechanisms — as well as on issues of process regarding who will have voice and how the negotiations will proceed.2 3 But we must not lose sight of its purpose and key objectives, and what…
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International education webinar brings a circle of conversations with Brazilian researchers and their experiences in Germany and a German researcher experiencing our research institutions.
In a new edition of the PrInt Fiocruz-Capes International Seminar, the Brazil-Germany International Education Initiative organizes an online event to be held on June 8, 2021 at 10:00 am.
Seeking to stimulate the interest in scientific and cultural background associated with Education and Research in Germany, in this event we will have a round table with researchers from Brazil and Germany sharing their…
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Fiocruz and its Immunobiological Technology Institute (Biomanguinhos/Fiocruz) signed, on Tuesday (6/1), the contract for Technology Transfer of the COVID-19 vaccine (recombinant) with AstraZeneca for the 100% national production of the immunizing agent. The contract formalizes the transfer of knowledge that has already been passed on by the technological partner to speed up the production of the Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) at the Biomanguinhos/Fiocruz facilities.
With the information received by then, the Institute carried out, in a few months, with funds from private donations,…
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Three projects, seven minutes of exhibition for each plus a private room to discuss them, exchange knowledge and pursue partnerships. The first edition of Translation Together Connect Series, last Friday (May 28), was a sort of pilot program for the webinars that are expected to become monthly, in an attempt to bring together members of this global alliance and boost projects in the field of translational science. Three Fiocruz researchers, Nicolas Carels, Lysangela Alves and William Provance, had the chance to present their research projects.
The webinar is a spin-off of Translation Together…
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This Wednesday (26/5), at a Deliberative Session at the Plenary, the Chamber of Deputies approved Bill 2077/2019 that establishes the title of Public Health National Heritage and awards it to Fiocruz. The title is granted to governmental and private non-profit institutions who provide relevant and remarkable services to public health and that have technical, scientific, educational, wellfare activities, activities of social participation, promotion, protection and recuperation of health. The institutions in question must have at least 70 years of activity, in addition to public and…
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The past few years have been frustrating for the international climate change agenda. The United Nations Convention on Climate Change (COP25) took place in 2019 in Madrid, but it was far from peaceful, after its cancellation in Brazil and in Chile. Many issues were left to be solved the following year, but in 2020, for the first time, the Convention did not happen, because of the pandemic. There is much catching up to be done and high expectations for COP26, which will take place in Glasgow, Scotland, in November this year. This was the evaluation done by ambassador Rubens Ricupero during the…
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In a paper published (5/25) on Nature Medicine, researchers of the Fiocruz Genomic Network and of partner institutions point to the cause of the increase in the number of COVID-19 cases in the state of Amazonas and of the successive replacements of lineages of Sars-CoV-2. The study shows that these factors have been boosted by a combination of reduced social distancing measures and the appearance of a new, more transmissible form of the virus, the P.1 variation, identified in mid-November 2020. This variant has caused an exponential increase in case numbers, thus establishing a second wave of…
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The rapid spread of some Sars-CoV-2 variants has been associated with reports of COVID-19 reinfection, based, for example, on the P.1 high prevalence in the first two months after its emergence. Given this scenario, researchers from Fiocruz Pernambuco and Foundation's Genomics Network members sought to verify what the real mechanisms behind reinfection might be. The initial hypothesis was that a greater competence of the new variants would bind to human host cells, but the result pointed in a different direction. According to the study coordinator and Fiocruz Pernambuco researcher, Roberto…
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Beatriz Grinsztejn, head of the INI’s Laboratory of Clinical Research on STDs and AIDS, was granted last Wednesday (March 19) the Ward Cates Spirit Award by the HIV Prevention Tests Network (HPTN). Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of the United States, attended the event.
The award was given by Myron Cohen, the main investigator of the network. More than one thousand researchers with links to the HPTN cast ballots to elect this year’s winner. “Beatriz Grinsztejn joined us leading the HPTN 052 study in Brazil (Prevention of Sexual…
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If the COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating effect worldwide, recovery provides an opportunity for long-overdue changes to finally happen. It is not enough to think of returning to normality as it was before, because this would not be good for anyone, it is necessary to correct the course and direct science, technology, and innovation towards meeting social, environmental, and health objectives. It was on this line of reflection that the various presentations converged in the debate held on Tuesday (May 18), organized by the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) and the Global Conferences on…
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The Observatory of Sustainable and Healthy Territories of Bocaina (OTSS), a partnership between Fiocruz and the Traditional Communities Forum (FCT), was appointed as one of the 10 most innovative initiatives for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) implementation in Brazil by 2021. The selection was announced by the Civil Society Working Group for Agenda 2030 (WG 2030 Agenda) and the Institute for Democracy and Sustainability (IDS Brasil).
"This award shows the correctness of the OTSS territorial governance strategy and the effectiveness of the solutions that have been developed for the…
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A study coordinated by the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) is helping to understand why some critically ill patients submitted to mechanical ventilation manage to leave the ICU, while others do not survive. The research indicates that the presence of the human endogenous retrovirus K (HERV-K) is associated not only with worsening disease but also with early mortality.
From March to December 2020, the study Human endogenous retrovirus K activation in the lower respiratory tract of severe COVID-19 patients associates with early mortality followed 25 critically ill patients who required…
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The dengue virus is one of the greatest threats to public health in globe tropical regions, and especially in Brazil, where annual epidemics lead to thousands of Brazilians sickness. In the year 2019 alone, there were 2.1 million cases. However, something very intriguing happened in the years 2017-2018, right after the zika, dengue and chikungunya virus’s triple epidemic in 2016. Dengue fever case numbers were reported well below average until its resurgence in 2019.
In the search for an answer to this phenomenon, a study was carried out in cooperation by researchers from Fiocruz Pernambuco…
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A mixture of expectation and hope took over Botucatu, in the interior of São Paulo, this weekend. The city was chosen to be the stage for an unprecedented research that kicked off last Sunday (5/16), with the mass vaccination against COVID-19 of the entire adult population. More than 63,000 Botucatu residents were immunized in just one day, exceeding the expectation that 60,000 people would receive the first dose this Sunday. Minister of Health Marcelo Queiroga participated in the immunization process in the municipality, administering the first dose of the vaccine to 57-year-old Suze Helena…
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The name of the most recent seminar of the Fiocruz Global Health Center (CRIS in the Portuguese acronym), last Wednesday (May 12th), came from a question: Ibero-America - A New Space for Health Diplomacy? And it ended with an answer. For most of the event’s attendees, diplomats and experts on both sides of the Atlantic, the pandemic accelerated a process of cooperation that had already been taking place in the region, put health under the spotlight, and showed that a common response is needed for a common problem. “It is not the diplomacy of the disease or the vaccine. It is the diplomacy of…
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There is little data available on the mental health of young indigenous people. In this context, between December 2020 and January 2021, scientists from the Research Center Leônidas & Maria Deane (Fiocruz Amazonia) carried out a diagnostic study that involved eight regions of the Amazon and that resulted in a better understanding of the effects of COVID-19 in this population group. “The study focused on the understanding of the knowledge, the attitudes and the practices (KAP) of young people on mental health during this pandemic period. The results show that indigenous…
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Fiocruz is taking part of the survey COVID-19: our care, our actions, their effects, with the goal of getting to know better the treatments and preventive actions that people from all over the world have been experiencing in the context of the disease. Spearheaded by the Antenna Foundation, a Swiss NGO that offers technological and medical solutions to populations in need, the survey boasts the collaboration of universities and research institutions from 13 countries. In Brazil, Fiocruz Bahia is the partner in charge of the project led by the institution’s Committee of Ethics in Research (CEP…
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Although studies suggest that children and adolescents attending summer camps and social events may carry COVID-19 into their homes, work by researchers at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), the University of California (UCLA), and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) indicates that they more often become infected by adults than act as transmitters.
A preview of the article SARS-CoV-2 Infection Dynamics in Children and Household Contacts in a Slum in Rio de Janeiro, to be published in Pediatrics, Official Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, explains that…
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Establishing a dialog between scientific development and social development was one of the proposals presented by Fiocruz’s president, Nísia Trindade Lima, in the event What Needs to be Done?: Biomedical and Public Health Research in Brazil and the US Post-COVID, promoted by Yale University. The president emphasized the social nature of the pandemic and the need to consider the organization of social protection as a fundamental axis for post-COVID-19 recovery.
“The Covid-19 pandemic is showing a high scientific response, but it reveals a deep inequality among countries, and within…
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