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Mission
Produce, disseminate and share knowledge and technologies aimed at the strengthening and consolidation of the Unified Health System (SUS) and contribute to the promotion of health and quality of life of the population. Besides the reduction of social inequalities and the national dynamics of innovation, with the defense of the right to health and full citizenship as central values. (Approved at the Sixth Internal Congress)
Vision
To be a public and strategic institution of health recognized by the Brazilian society and other countries for its ability to place science, technology,…
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Oswaldo Cruz Foundation was created on May 25, 1900. It was first called Serum Therapeutic Institute. Initially the objective was produce serums and vaccines against the plague. After the designation of Oswaldo Cruz as director in 1902, the institution expanded its activities and became involved in research and experimental medicine
The foundation became the base for Oswaldo Cruz’s famous sanitation campaigns in Rio de Janeiro. That time the city suffered with epidemics of bubonic plague, yellow fever and smallpox. After bypass the critical situation in Rio, the foundation made scientific…
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FIOCRUZ has historically maintained a strong international presence through cooperation and exchange with health and science and technology institutions in various countries. This work is coordinated by the Center for International Relations in Health (CRIS).
International technical assistance has provided important support to the development of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation over the years, first through a North-South relationship, relying on prospecting by specific researchers, and later with greater institutionalization and participation by organizations from partner countries and…
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Fiocruz has always given support to a public health proposal focusing on a hollistic vision of man as a being that lives in society and in the environment, conditioned by economic, social and cultural circumstances. Therefore, the institution has incorporated, among its best traditions, the work towards the promotion of better living conditions for unassisted and underserved communities and social groups.
Involving diverse knowledge and expertise, the initiatives of Fiocruz seek to build a common understanding and a consensus on the agenda of social priorities. In the second half of 2009, the…
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All technical and scientific Fiocruz's units develop programs for post-graduate studies with doctoral programs and academic or professional master. There are 32 programs, entered in ten areas of evaluation of the Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (Capes).
The Foundation also offers several post-graduation courses (specialization, improvement, upgrade and residence), and professional education through the Polytechnic School of Health Joaquim Venâncio (EPSJV).
Also available are post-graduation courses and professional education in distance mode.
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Research Ethics Committee
The Research Ethics Committee (CEP) analyzes and evaluates the ethical aspects of experimental projects involving human participants, to ensure the welfare of those involved and the compliance with current legislation. In the CEP Fiocruz, some units of the Foundation have their own committees, with the same responsibilities and prerogatives. Additional information on CEP can be obtained by e-mail etica@fiocruz.br, by phone (55) (21) 3882-9000 (ext 9011) or by fax (55) (21) 2561-4815. The committee is administered by the Vice Presidency for Research and…
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Biological collections are groups of organisms, or parts thereof, organized to provide information about origin, collection and identification of each of its specimens. At Fiocruz, the oldest collections began to be composed in the early 20th century, when, during scientific expeditions, institutional researchers collected, analyzed and deposited biological material from different regions of Brazil. Currently, there are 33 collections that are institutionally recognized and that have the support of Fiocruz for its maintenance and safeguarding.
They are divided into five categories:…
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The Immunobiological Technology Institute (Biomanguinhos) guarantees the brazilian self-sufficiency in essential vaccines to respond to public health demands of the brazilian vaccination schedule of the Ministry of Health.
The institute is basically oriented to produce vaccines to DTP and Hib, yellow fever, haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib), meningitis A and C, poliomyelitis and the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine (MMR).
DTP and Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib)
The institute produces the combined DTP and Haemophilus influenzae B (Hib) vaccine is also known as tetravalent,…
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Farmanguinhos, one of the Fiocruz’s production units, guarantees, for brazilian people, the access to essential drugs, such as antibiotics, anti-inflammatory, anti-infectious medicines, painkillers.
The Institute support Federal Government strategic programs, producing drugs for endemic diseases, such as TB and malaria, for central nervous system, and for diabetes and hypertension.
Among the most important products offered by Farmanguinhos to the government programs, is the Artesunate + Mefloquine (ASMQ), an innovative medicine against malaria, developed with international partners.…
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The Oswaldo Cruz Foundation produces kits and reagents for diagnosing several diseases, aiming to meet the endemic and injury control programs from the National Health Foundation (Funasa) and sexually transmitted diseases. Those kits are developed in Biomanguinhos, manufacturing unit that is located in their central campus, in Rio de Janeiro. They are:
NAT HIV/HCV
It supplements the serology tests offered at the blood centers all over the country, increasing safety on transfusions. It uses an automated platform with a large capacity of processing that allows simultaneous analysis of up to…
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A patent is a title that grants to its holder the right to exclusive use of an invention for a specified period. In exchange for this monopoly, the invention must be released to the society with the aim to promote development. After the end of that period, the patent becomes public domain, i.e., it may be used by everyone.
The research and technological development activities at Fiocruz generated several requests for patent protection, since the area of Technology Management was created at Fiocruz in 1986.
Among the technology areas in which Fiocruz has request of pledge of the patent,…
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Population Health
Fiocruz's units offer various health services, always articulated with teaching and research activities. The criteria for treatment varies according to the specially and with the core to which they are linked. In general, it is necessary that patients are referred by other health services, referenced to the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS), and some specialties of the Germano Sinval Faria School Health Center, the service is a priority for residents in the neighborhood of Manguinhos where is located the headquarters of the Foundation, in Rio de Janeiro.
Women, child and…
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The reference laboratories of Fiocruz represent a set of services for the diagnosis of compulsory disease reports. Perform laboratory tests of high complexity, associated with the development of research that assists in epidemiological surveillance, health and environmental and clinical care of patients.
The activities of these laboratories are associated with research and technological development. Accordingly, they generate knowledge, processes and products, such as defining methodologies, diagnostic validation, assistance in specific areas, technological development, human resource…
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The country’s main agency when dealing with technological issues and standards for assessing the quality of inputs, products, environments and services in the health sector is the National Institute for Quality Assurance in Health (INCQS), which comprises the National System of Sanitary Surveillance, and has a background of over 30 years worth of experience. Among the products assessed by INCQS, one can highlight generic and reference drugs, as well as a project in cooperation with the People’s Pharmacy Program; purified water for hemodialysis, aimed at improving the treatment provided to…
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Collaborating Centre for Quality of Care and Patient Safety (Proqualis), linked to the Institute of Scientific and Technological Communication and Information in Health (ICICT), develops from the fact that one of the most important aspects for the improvement of health care provided to patients and to adopt measures to ensure their safety is dissemination of wide selected, updated and quality information for all involved in the chain of supply of such care.
From doctors, nurses and other health professionals to the patients themselves and the public in general. Consequently their…
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The Fiocruz Libraries Network, coordenated by the Institute of Scientific and Technological Information and Communication in Health (ICICT), gathers thousands of publications adquired since the foundation of the institution, at 1900. The network integrates libraries situated at Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Belo Horizonte, Manaus, Recife, Brasília and at several documentation centers.
The website of the libraries network gathers information about each library and the services they offer, as literature search, local and remote query, home loan, interlibrary loan and user training. At the web site…
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VideoSaúde Distributor
The VideoSaúde Distributor of Fiocruz carries out research, acquisition, cataloging, treating, production and distribution of audiovisual on health. The collection is available to registered users, including agencies and institutions of the Unified Health System (SUS), private schools, students, NGOs and community organizations, and individual users. The VideoSaúde Distributor is linked to the Institute of Scientific and Technological Communication and Information in Health (ICICT), which coordinates, also the participation of Fiocruz in Rio de Janeiro University…
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To fulfill its mission to produce, disseminate and share knowledge facing strengthening of the Unified Health System (SUS), Fiocruz has several publications. They are books, scientific journals, magazines and newsletters, prepared in order to meet the needs of the Foundation's vast and heterogeneous audience.
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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 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 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 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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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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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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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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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 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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