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The Department of Policies for Pharmaceutical Drugs and Assistance (NAF) of the National School of Public Health (Ensp/Fiocruz) has been redesignated as a Collaborating Center of the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO), part of the World Health Organization (WHO), in the area of Pharmaceutical Policies, at the end of 2019. Granted for the sixth time in a row, the redesignation is valid for a four-year period. The role played by NAF as a PAHO Collaborating Center consists in supporting the formulation and implementation of pharmaceutical policies in different countries of the Americas and…
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A group of researchers made a critical analysis of the current system of clinical classification of chikungunya cases. According to the scientists, with the emergency of the chikungunya virus transmission in the Americas beginning in 2013, it became clear that the classification of cases as acute, sub-acute and chronic has been insufficient, as it does not include the classification needs presented in some patients. In addition, this classification does not contribute with early detection and handling of potentially serious cases.
According to researchers, the clinical spectrum of the…
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On February 8, the World Health Organization (WHO) revealed the results of its 2020 Dr. Lee Jong-wook Public Health award, won by the coordinator of the Global Network of Human Milk Banks (rBLH in the Brazilian Portuguese abbreviation) and researcher of the National Institute for the Health of Women, Children and Adolescents Fernandes Figueira (IFF/Fiocruz), João Aprígio Guerra de Almeida.
The award given by WHO pays homage to scientists and institutions from all over the world that have made progress in the field of health of populations. In the 2020 edition, the award acknowledges…
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Os editais PMA visam estimular trabalhadoras e trabalhadores da Fiocruz a desenvolver pesquisa científica que garanta o uso dos seus resultados na resolução de problemas detectados na área de Políticas Públicas e Modelos de Atenção e Gestão à Saúde.
A 1ª Rodada, realizada em 2020, teve como temática a Atenção Primária de Saúde.
A 2ª Rodada, de 2023, tem como temática as Políticas Públicas e Modelos de Atenção e Gestão de Saúde com foco na Diversidade e Equidade.
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With the inauguration of the new Comandante Ferraz Antarctica Station on January 15, Fiocruz now relies on a permanent laboratory in the continent. Fiolab is the result of a cooperation agreement signed with the Secretary of the Interministerial Commission for Marine Resources (Secirm/Brazilian Navy), and will be a biosafety laboratory prepared to respond to the country’s needs regarding epidemiological and public health surveillance and to provide support to health and environment research in Antarctica.
With the inauguration of the new Comandante Ferraz Antarctic Station, Fiocruz will have…
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Fiocruz takes part on a meeting of hundreds of scientists from all over the world at the headquarters of the World Health Organization (WHO), in Geneva, on February 11 and 12, to discuss how research can be used to intensify efforts to combat the novel coronavirus. Fiocruz's president, Nísia Trindade Lima, is one of the chairpersons of the last day sessions, which will define the priorities of a global research agenda.
President of Fiocruz, Nísia Trindade Lima, and National Coordinator/ Chief Executive Officer of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Nigeria’s National Public Health…
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It is not easy to surprise a scientist as experienced as Carlos Medicis Morel, general coordinator of the Center for Technological Development in Health (CDTS) of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), former president of the institution and former director of TDR, Special Program for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases of the World Health Organization (WHO). But this is exactly what happened in February 2017, when the researcher visited China for the second time. The surprise appeared in a city that he had never heard of before, Shenzhen. “There, I visited the hospital where the…
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Fiocruz is the reference institution in Brazil for testing the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) and has been working closely with the country´s Ministry of Health (MoH) to ensure timely and reliable diagnostic and response.
On January 24, Fiocruz created a Health Situation Center dedicated to expanding knowledge and monitoring of the situation of the new coronavirus. The meetings bring together researchers, managers and technicians of the institution, as well as representatives of the State Department of Health and municipal secretariats.
On January 27, Fiocruz was also invited to join the…
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Starting this week, Brazil will gain a weight boost in the national response to a possible introduction of the novel coronavirus (Covid-2019) in the country. Together with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), specialists from the Laboratory of Respiratory And Measles Virus of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC/Fiocruz), which acts as the National Reference Center in Respiratory Viruses for the Ministry of Health, promoted the training of professionals from the Evandro Chagas Institute and the Adolfo Lutz Institute for the laboratory diagnosis of the pathogen.
Together with Opas, an…
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With support of Fiocruz, the Nuffield Council on Bioethics has issued on January 29th a Call for Action to research funders, governments, and others involved in health research systems for a more ethical and collaborative approach to conducting research during emergencies such as infectious disease outbreaks. The latest novel coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China, illustrates how suddenly new threats can emerge, and the important role that research has to play in understanding the nature of the threat, and how to respond effectively.
The pressures and distressing circumstances of such…
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A Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz), por meio de seu Comitê Pró-Equidade de Gênero e Raça, realiza na próxima sexta-feira (29/1), das 10h às 12h30, o encontro virtual Visibilidade Trans na Fiocruz: desconstruindo e reconstruindo pela diversidade, em alusão ao Dia Nacional da Visibilidade Trans (29/1). O evento reforça a necessidade de respeito ao movimento trans e a importância de se promover a cidadania entre mulheres e homens travestis e transexuais. A transmissão será feita pelo canal da VideoSaúde Distribuidora da Fiocruz no YouTube .
A mesa Visibilizar a…
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Para orientar e informar os cuidadores de idosos no contexto da pandemia da Covid-19, a Escola Politécnica de Saúde Joaquim Venâncio (EPSJV/Fiocruz) lançou nesse mês três novas cartilhas de apoio para esses profissionais. As publicações abordam os temas: luto e solidão, atividades físicas e direitos das pessoas cuidadoras de idosos, e integram o projeto Cuidando de quem cuida, vinculado ao programa Inova Fiocruz, que reúne, ao todo, seis vídeo-aulas e seis cartilhas sobre o assunto. “Tudo foi elaborado em linguagem simples e acessível, algumas com ilustrações, voltado tanto para as…
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Pesquisadores da Fiocruz podem se cadastrar para oferecer uma oportunidade de estágio em seu laboratório ou departamento a pesquisadores franceses. As bolsas são oferecidas pela Fundação Pierre Ledoux a estudantes de nacionalidade francesa, de até 35 anos de idade, para um período de três a dez meses, podendo ser de graduação, mestrado, doutorado ou pós-doutorado.
O objetivo é desenvolver competências humanas e promover o intercâmbio no âmbito da Rede Internacional de Instituto Pasteur. Interessados em participar devem entrar em contato até o dia 12/02 com o Centro de Relações…
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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.
Mesmo de máscara, no…
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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.
Também…
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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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