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A Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa de São Paulo (Fapesp), o conselho de pesquisa britânico Medical Research Council (MRC) e o Fundo Newton anunciaram, no dia 15/1, o resultado de uma chamada de propostas para selecionar e financiar centros para parcerias em doenças infecciosas negligenciadas. Cinco propostas, de cientistas de diferentes instituições, foram selecionadas. Os centros serão um modelo de cooperação que impulsionará parcerias existentes e criará bases para novas colaborações entre cientistas brasileiros e britânicos. Uma das propostas selecionadas tem como pesquisadores responsáveis…
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A Fiocruz tem seu primeiro projeto de pesquisa para a Antártica aprovado em edital do Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq). O projeto terá duração de quatro anos e a equipe de pesquisadores deve embarcar na nova aventura ainda no fim de 2019.
Segundo o coordenador do projeto e pesquisador da Fiocruz, Wim Degrave, as interligações e os impactos dos ricos e variados ecossistemas da Antártica sobre a saúde dos animais, dos visitantes ou sobre o próprio continente e a América do Sul ainda são pouco estudados. “O projeto da Fiocruz vai buscar identificar novos…
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The Brazilian Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) approves Fiocruz's first research project in Antarctica. The project will have a four-year duration and researchers will embark on this new adventure at the end of 2019.
The partnership opens a new and important work front by Fiocruz in Antarctica.
According to project coordinator and Fiocruz researcher Wim Degrave, the impacts of Antarctica's rich and varied ecosystems on the health of animals and visitors on the very continent and on South America are still little studied. "Fiocruz project seeks to…
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Dams do not break by a divine design. Collapses are caused by physical, mechanical factors. And these factors only lead to disasters in the face of neglect and omission framework. That is, neither God nor Newton should be blamed for the tragedies of the dam collapses, but the negligent companies and the omissive and permissive state.
After the Samarco tragedy in November 2015, UN Special Rapporteurs for Human Rights warned and repeatedly charged the Brazilian government and companies - Samarco, Vale and BHP-Billiton - that disaster management should place the framework human rights in front…
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Since 2014, great chikungunya and zika fever epidemics have ravaged Brazil and other countries in the Americas, being added to dengue fever to compose a group of mosquito-transmitted febrile diseases that represent an emerging urban public health issue: the arboviroses. Thus, the correct clinical differentiation of each one of those diseases has become even more difficult. Furthermore, a simultaneous infection (coinfection) by more than one virus becomes possible, and the implications of such occurrence related to the clinical presentation and evolution are little evident.
Considering the…
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A hormone released by muscles during exercise can be the key to revert memory loss caused by Alzheimer's disease. This neurodegenerative disease has no cure and leads to the progressive impairment of a person's activities and to a wide range of neuropsychiatric symptoms and behavioral changes. Mouse studies showed that irisin improves neuron communication, preserving synapses. The hormone also prevents toxins that cause neurodegenerative changes, leading to disease onset, from binding to neurons. "We found that irisin also promotes chemical changes within neurons that protect the brain…
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President of Fiocruz Nísia Trindade de Lima met with the new representative of the Pan American Health Organization / World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) in Brazil, Socorro Gross on January 24th, at the PAHO / WHO headquarters in Brasilia.
Photo: PAHO/WHO
At the time, they talked about the several partnerships their institutions have. The Foundation is home to five PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centers and cooperate with the international organization in the production of vaccines, surveillance programs, research and training programs.
Innovation and technology were also discussed as an…
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The Consul General of Canada in Brazil, Evelyne Coulumbe, visited the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) last Tuesday (21st January), where she met representatives of the institution and President Nísia Trindade de Lima. Vice-Consul Marie-Hèlène Béland, a specialist in the theme of Science, Technology and Innovation, also participated in the visit, which aimed to strengthen health cooperation between the two countries.
"Besides of having the pleasure of meeting the first female president of Fiocruz, Brazil and Canada have an active collaboration in Science and Technology, and we could…
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Fernandes Figueira National Institute for Women, Children and Adolescents Health (IFF/Fiocruz) was visited in November by a group of 13 foreign midwives that wanted to learn more about the activities undertaken by each reference area of the institution, like the Breast Milk Bank (BLH-IFF) and the Pregnancy Care Center. This was the first trip to Brazil organized for foreign midwives as a response to the number of obstetric nurses in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand interested in opportunities to learn about their occupation in different contexts. In addition to IFF/Fiocruz, the…
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The Technological Platform for Participative Monitoring in Zoonosis Emergence, coordinated by the researcher Márcia Chame, was one of the winning initiatives in the 2018 SDG Brazil Award, in the Teaching, Research, and Extension category, granted by the Government Secretariat of the Presidency of Republic. The ceremony was performed on the last Thursday (12/13), in Planalto Palace, Brasília.
Coordinated by the researcher Márcia Chame, the Technological Platform for the Participatory Monitoring of Zoonoses Emergency was one of the winning initiatives of the SDG Brazil 2018 Award (photo:…
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Researcher of Gonçalo Moniz Institute (IGM/Fiocruz Bahia) Guilherme de Sousa Ribeiro coordinated a clinical and epidemiological study using intracranial imaging exams to rule in or rule out the occurrence of any congenital brain abnormalities in children with suspected microcephaly potentially related to zika virus infection in Salvador, Bahia. The research was conducted in collaboration with the Center for Strategic Information on Health Surveillance (Cievs), of the Municipal Secretariat of Health of Salvador, and published in the scientific journal Eurosurveillance, under the…
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The 6th Brazil Africa Forum, held on November 22nd and 23rd, 2018 by the Brazil Africa Forum, in Salvador, Bahia chose the theme Youth Empowerment: Transformation to Achieve Sustainable Development. The event brought together Government representatives, companies, universities and potential investors to strengthen ties and promote new partnerships among Portuguese-speaking African countries.
Photo: Fiocruz Bahia
In the first day, Fiocruz President, Nísia Trindade de Lima, participated in the panel South-South and Triangular Cooperation for health and development moderated by the…
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Climate changes are the major health concern of the 21st century. The increased global temperature is already felt in current heat waves, vector-borne diseases and in the food security of populations around the globe. Twenty-seven academic institutions of all continents, including Fiocruz, have just published the Lancet Countdown report to monitor this.
The report, which exists since 2016 and gathers 41 indicators, warns of risks health systems around the world will face if governments and society don’t act fast to curb global warming.
“Until recently, health impacts were little studied…
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In Brazil, a mother is as vulnerable as her child born with microcephaly due to zika in the last three years, as well as the other women involved in this child daily care. With a systematic routine of doctor’s appointments, stimulation and recovery activities for the child, they had to stop working - which impacts family income - abandon personal projects and face the difficulties of a health system unprepared to care for their children. This data is part of the research Impactos Sociais e Econômicos da Infecção pelo Vírus Zika (Social and Economic Impacts of Zika Virus Infection) results…
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Myths about migration and health – including that migrants are disease carriers and are a burden on services – are pervasive and harmful to individuals and society. The normalisation of these myths in popular discourse has allowed governments to introduce hostile and restrictive policies in many countries around the world – including the detention of migrants at US borders, and the denial of treatment to migrants in the UK’s National Health Service (NHS).
Public health protection and cost savings are often used as reasons to restrict migrants’ access to health care, or to deny them…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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O livro Novas e Velhas Faces da Violência no Século XXI: visão da literatura brasileira do campo da saúde, organizado por Maria Cecília de Souza Minayo e Simone Gonçalves de Assis, conquistou a segunda colocação na categoria Ciências Humanas do Prêmio Abeu 2018. A cerimônia de premiação, promovida pela Associação Brasileira das Editoras Universitárias, aconteceu ontem (5/11), na Cinemateca Brasileira, em São Paulo.
A primeira colocação na mesma categoria ficou com o Dicionário da Língua de Sinais no Brasil: a Libras em suas mãos (Edusp), de Fernando César Capovilla, Walkiria Duarte…
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On August 28th, the national secretary of Social Articulation, Henrique Villa, was at Fiocruz to attend Sala de Convidados (Guest Room) show, in Canal Saúde(Fiocruz Open Channel on Health). The show discussed implementation of the UN 2030 Agenda in Brazil. Villa is currently the executive secretary of the National Committee on Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). The committee, composed of eight government members and eight civil society members, with their respective deputies, is the most senior level of the 2030 Agenda in Brazil and is advised by Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica…
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What are the structural factors generating health inequalities in the Americas? How should governments act to overcome such inequalities? To answer these questions, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) gathered twelve experts to set up the Commission on Equity and Health Inequalities in the Americas. Fiocruz former president and current coordinator of Centro de Relações Internacionais em Saúde - Cris/Fiocruz (Fiocruz Global Health Center), Paulo Buss, is one of the members.
The Commission worked on the theme for 2 years and on September 24th it delivered the executive…
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Created in 2015, the 2030 Agenda gathers UN targets for sustainable development. Health is a transversal target and is covered by all 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), but addressed specifically in Goal 3. The nine targets part of this SDG were analyzed on a new report of the Health System Performance Assessment Program (Proadess), from Instituto de Comunicação e Informação Científica e Tecnológica em Saúde - Icict/Fiocruz (Institute for Scientific and Technological Communication and Information on Health). The analysis was made based on a historical series of indicators proposed for…
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