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A revista Radis de fevereiro destaca a entrevista com a pesquisadora da ENSP/Fiocruz, Margareth Dalcolmo. Ela afirma que “teremos um ano de 2021 ainda muito difícil e, nos próximos dois anos, o mundo todo terá que guardar alguns cuidados coletivos de proteção”. Dalcolmo ainda não havia sido imunizada com a vacina AstraZeneca/Oxford quando foi entrevistada por Ana Cláudia Peres e Luiz Felipe Stevanim pela Radis, o que aconteceu em 23/1 durante cerimônia na Fiocruz para liberação de duas milhões de doses da vacina importada do Instituto Sérum, na Índia.
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Sistema de informação sobre a epidemia do novo coronavírus no Brasil, o MonitoraCovid-19 ganhou novo site. Sediado no mesmo endereço, teve seu layout aprimorado para facilitar a navegação e ampliar o seu uso para diversos perfis de usuários. Desde março de 2020, quando foi lançada, a ferramenta tornou-se referência no monitoramento de dados sobre a pandemia. Por meio dela, qualquer internauta pode acompanhar, por exemplo, números de casos e óbitos, evolução da pandemia no tempo e no espaço, e percentuais da população que pertencem a grupos de risco.
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Na tarde deste sábado (23/1), a Fiocruz liberou ao Ministério da Saúde (MS) dois caminhões com as dois milhões de doses da vacina da AstraZeneca/Oxford importadas do Instituto Sérum, na Índia. As doses foram enviadas ao almoxarifado do MS, próximo à Fiocruz, para distribuição aos estados brasileiros. A presidente da Fiocruz, Nísia Trindade Lima, abriu a cerimônia de liberação das doses com agradecimentos a todos os atores envolvidos no esforço da vacina e mencionando o recado do ministro da Saúde, Eduardo Pazuello. "Falo em nome do ministro da Saúde, que me pediu para transmitir sua…
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Ao final da 1ª Reunião Extraordinária Pública da Diretoria Colegiada, realizada na manhã do domingo (17/1), a Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária (Anvisa) autorizou o uso emergencial de duas vacinas contra a Covid-19: a Oxford-AstraZeneca, da Fiocruz, e a Coronavac, do Instituto Butantan. Um dia histórico para a Anvisa e também para o Brasil, marcando o início da vacinação no país.
O pedido emergencial submetido pela Fiocruz se refere às 2 milhões de vacinas prontas que serão importadas do Instituto Serum, um dos centros capacitados pela AstraZeneca para a produção da vacina na…
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Archaeopaleontological collection aims to preserve and provide for scientific research unique and unrecoverable material from ancient times, which can be confronted with current samples and, thus, to support the formation of specialists and studies on the history of diseases from the past to the presente, the distribution of parasite and host species and their pathways for dispersal and migration, biological, ecological and cultural relationships, as well as paleoepidemiological studies, disease ecology and prediction models of future occurrence, based on inferences from environmental and…
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Four years after the launching of the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), by the United Nations (UN), there is a consensus among specialists that the expected progress is not taking place. This means it will not be possible to achieve the goals agreed by the countries without changing things.
With the goal of accelerating the progress in the search for solution against today’s great problems, the Global Sustainable Technology & Innovation Conferences (G-STIC) took place between 20 and 22 November in Brussels, Belgium. The event is organized by the Flemish Institute…
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The National Institute for Quality Control in Health (INCQS/Fiocruz) participated (11/5 to 7) of the 3rd General Meeting of the WHO-National Control Laboratory Network for Biologicals, in Johannesburg, South Africa. During the meeting, it was discussed the possibility of turning INCQS/Fiocruz into an effective member of the Network.
The chief of the Bacterial Vaccines sector of the Immunology Department, Alexandre Dias, was the representative of INCQS/Fiocruz during the meeting of WHO regulatory systems, which included participants of many countries quality control laboratories. Dias…
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Paulo Carvalho, researcher at the Carlos Chagas Institute / Fiocruz Paraná, was one of the two winners of the Pasteur Network Talent 2019 award. The award ceremony took place during the 51st annual meeting of directors of the International Network of the Pasteur Institute, held from 12 to 15 November at the Pasteur Center in the Republic of Cameroon.
The goal of the award is to acknowledge and support career development for researchers with high scientific potential and international leadership among the 33 institutions that make up the network.
This is the first time Fiocruz is awarded this…
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Researchers of the World Mosquito Program (WMP) presented on 11/21 new evidence of the reduction of arbovirus-caused diseases in areas where Aedes aegypti with Wolbachia were released, in Brazil, Indonesia, Vietnam and Australia. Wolbachia is an intracellular bacterium that, once present inside mosquitoes, prevents dengue, zika and chikungunya viruses from developing within these insects, therefore reducing the transmission of the diseases. Preliminary WMP data, a global initiative led by Fiocruz in Brazil, point to a reduction of about 75% of the cases of chikungunya in Niterói (in the state…
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“For the first time in almost 70 years, Brazil has achieved the Anvisa [the Brazilian agency for food and drug administration] registration of a new drug against malaria vivax” - this was how Dhélio Batista Pereira, public health researcher at Fiocruz Rondônia and at the Center for Tropical Medicine Research (Cepem), announced the most recent victory in the fight against a disease that affects about 7.5 million people worldwide, according to WHO. Developed by British pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline, tafenoquine registration was accepted (10/29) by Anvisa. According to the researcher,…
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This November, Nutrition students and professionals of the city of Beira, in the province of Sofala, Mozambique, took part in a training course on anthropometric measurements and in field interviews taught by Fiocruz. The goal was to qualify them to make a 24-hour Diary, a technique consisting of defining and quantifying all foods and beverages ingested in the period prior to the interview (in this case, in the last 24 hours), to assess the nutritional status of children.
The training course is part of the Food and Nutritional Safety Training Program in Beira and focuses on developing the…
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Fiocruz received a Dutch delegation that was in Brazil for prospection meetings involving big data in the areas of health and life sciences, on the 11/29. In addition to representatives of the Dutch government, the group also included professionals from different universities in Holland.
The delegation was able to get to know Fiocruz’s actions regarding big data, such as the National Laboratory of Scientific Computing (LNCC) and the Center of Integration of Data and Knowledge for Health (Cidacs), among other initiatives. The Consul for Science, Technology and Innovation, Petra Smits,…
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The Fiocruz Scientific Computing Programme (Procc/Fiocruz) is a Fiocruz initiative to work towards the development and application of innovative mathematical and statistical methods in bioscience research, primarily those developed at the Foundation. It aims to maintain high productivity in quantitative research focused on study design and data analysis and on the mathematical and statistical modelling of biological systems with applications in health areas, ranging from the development of drugs to the study of epidemics, in partnership with research groups inside and outside…
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Queen Mary University of London, Fiocruz, and Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV) have pledged £40,000 each in seed funding for the development of research collaborations following workshops which aimed to establish scalable projects to generate impact in Brazil. The funding will be used to create the “Brazil Accelerator Fund”, applications are opened to the staff of the institutions till january 31st.. At least seven new research projects have already resulted from the event.
Led by Professor Colin Grant, Vice Principal (International), 12 Queen Mary staff, including five academics from the…
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The experience of Fiocruz when it comes to health and knowledge production, and how this expertise can benefit developing countries, was subject of an exclusive panel at the Nairobi Summit, an event organized jointly by the governments of Kenya and Danmark and by the United Nations Population Fund (Unfpa) that took place on 11/12. The Summit brought together governments, society, scholars and activitists from all over the world to evaluate the progress made in sexual and reproductive health in the past 25 years, since the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and…
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The climate changes experienced by the entire planet are already causing health problems on children and can have lifelong consequences that will affect an entire generation, according to the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change. The study, that gathers researches of 35 global institutions, including Fiocruz, was launched in Brazil on 11/18, during an event at the University of São Paulo.
The report is an annual analysis that follows 41 key indicators to assess the impact of climate change on public health. With this purpose, the document tackles four essential areas: vulnerability…
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On november 18th, the third Human Bank Milk in African continent was opened at the Lucrécia Paim Maternity, in Luanda, Angola’s capital. The Bank is the result of a technical cooperation project promoted by Brazil, the “Pilot Project for the implantation and implementation of a Human Milk Bank in Angola”, a trailblazer in the country, coordinated by the Brazilian Cooperation Agency (ABC) and technically implemented by the Ministry of Health by means of Fiocruz.
The Ministry of Health, Luiz Henrique Mandetta, went to Angola especially to participate in the opening ceremony, led by the…
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Fiocruz will have its own virtual space on the international platform The Global Health Network from December 3rd. The virtual environment (you can acess here) will be a knowledge sharing space, which aims to strengthen networks and increase Fiocruz's international presence, contributing to improve regional and global public health research capacities. The launch will take place at Fiocruz campus, in Rio de Janeiro, during the International Seminar of the Fiocruz Internationalization Program (Print - Fiocruz / Capes).
Fiocruz's virtual space is the result of partnership signed on July…
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Mercosur Health Ministers, gathered in São Paulo, on November 1st, signed an agreement that allows the transfer of technology for the creation and expansion of the Breast Milk Bank program in the countries of the block. Brazil has the largest and most complex Milk Bank Network in the world, coordinated by the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), which will serve as a reference for Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay.
“Human milk is superior to any kind of formula. For each liter of milk offered to premature children, it is possible to decrease two days of stay in the neo-natal ICU and discharge is…
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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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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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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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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 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 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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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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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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