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Trabalhos do Instituto Nacional de Controle de Qualidade em Saúde (INCQS/Fiocruz) sobre controle da qualidade dos testes para diagnóstico da dengue, do Departamento de Imunologia (DI); e qualidade das máscaras comercializadas no Brasil em tempo de pandemia da Covid-19, do Departamento de Química (DQ), foram condecorados com o Prêmio Anvisa 2024. Em comemoração aos seus 25 anos, a Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária (Anvisa), premiou iniciativas que tem o objetivo de estimular a cultura de inovação, valorizar o desempenho das equipes, disseminar iniciativas e ações que contribuíram para o…
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O Ministério da Saúde realiza, neste sábado (14), o Dia D de Mobilização contra a Dengue, uma iniciativa nacional que une Governo Federal, estados, municípios e a população no controle da doença. A ação busca conscientizar a sociedade sobre a importância de medidas simples para conter a proliferação do mosquito Aedes aegypti, principal transmissor da doença.
Assista ao convite da ministra para a população brasileira participar da mobilização
A ministra da Saúde, Nísia Trindade, reforça a importância da mobilização. “Com apenas 10 minutos por semana, é possível evitar a…
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O Laboratório de Ensaios Pré-Clínicos (LAEPC) do Departamento de Desenvolvimento Experimental e Pré-Clínico (Dedep) do Instituto de Tecnologia em Imunobiológicos (Bio-Manguinhos/Fiocruz) ganhou o Prêmio DuPont™ na Categoria Tyvek® e Tychem® . O gerente do laboratório, Rodrigo Muller, participou da cerimônia (10/12), em São Paulo, e recebeu o prêmio, agradecendo por toda a equipe que atuou na rápida e efetiva adequação das instalações e dos processos do LAEPC durante a pandemia de Covid-19.
Essa premiação tem como objetivo reconhecer e premiar empresas e profissionais que tenham criado e…
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The pneumologist and researcher at the National School of Public Health Sergio Arouca (ENSP/Fiocruz), Margareth Dalcolmo, was featured in the profile titled Margareth Dalcolmo: TB expert and Brazil’s "face of COVID-19", published in the scientific journal The Lancet Respiratory Medicine.
The article narrates how the researcher became a physician, recalling her admission to the Medical School of Santa Casa de Misericórdia and, later, her doctorate at the Federal University of São Paulo, where she worked on a large randomized clinical trial comparing different treatments for tuberculosis.
The…
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Pneumologista e pesquisadora da Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sergio Arouca (Ensp/Fiocruz), Margareth Dalcolmo foi destaque no perfil intitulado Margareth Dalcolmo: especialista em TB e a ‘cara da Covid-19’ no Brasil, publicado pela revista científica The Lancet Respiratory Medicine.
O artigo narra como a pesquisadora se tornou médica, relembrando a vaga conquistada na Escola de Medicina da Santa Casa de Misericórdia e, em seguida, no doutorado na Universidade Federal de São Paulo, no qual atuou em um grande ensaio clínico randomizado, que comparou diferentes tratamentos para…
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Entre os 500 filmes disponíveis na Plataforma de Filmes em Acesso Aberto da Fiocruz, a Fioflix, é possível encontrar incontáveis histórias potentes do universo da saúde pública. O curta-metragem documental Sala Lilás: Atendimento Humanizado no Combate às Violências é uma das obras que compõem este rico catálogo. Dirigido exclusivamente por mulheres - Hanna Carneiro, Irlaine Arruda, Juliana Pereira - o documentário explora um serviço do Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS), localizado em Mangaratiba (Costa Verde do Rio de Janeiro) no Hospital Municipal Victor de Souza Breves. Trata-se da…
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A Associação Brasileira de Saúde Coletiva (Abrasco) e a Fiocruz divulgaram, na quarta-feira (11/12), uma nota oficial conjunta em que se posicionam conta a pulverização de agrotóxicos por drones. As duas instituições se manifestam favoráveis à lei sancionada em 2019 pelo então governador do Ceará, Camilo Santana, que proibiu esse tipo de pulverização no estado. As duas instituições sugerem à Assembleia Legislativa e ao Governo do Ceará que não apoiem a criação de legislação liberando o uso de drones para a aplicação de agrotóxicos, em respeito também à própria Lei Zé Maria do Tomé - que foi…
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Nos dias 20 a 23 de novembro ocorreu o IV Seminário Internacional de Urbanização de Favelas, na Universidade de São Paulo (USP), no qual a equipe do Escritório Técnico de Diálogos Sociotécnicos em Saúde Urbana da Fiocruz Mata Atlântica (FMA) apresentou a experiência de assessoria técnica à habitação de interesse social em territórios vulnerabilizados, desenvolvida no Setor 1 da Colônia Juliano Moreira (CJM), território no qual o campus da FMA está inserido. O estudo relaciona a urbanização de favelas e melhorias habitacionais à promoção de um habitat saudável Participaram do desenvolvimento…
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The international Mosaic project has concluded its first activities in the two study areas located on the Amazon. From October 20 to November 2, researchers visited the triple border between Brazil, Colombia and Peru and the binational border between Brazil and French Guiana. Scientists from France, Portugal, Poland, Kenya, Colombia, Peru and Brazil took part in different stages of the expedition. Entitled Multi-site application of open science in the creation of healthy environments involving local communities (Mosaic), the project brings together 15 scientific institutions from seven…
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The international partnerships at Fiocruz are governed by various collaborative agreements. The following is a list of the agreements currently in force.
North-South
In France, FIOCRUZ is the only Brazilian institution that belongs to the Pasteur World Network, which maintains projects with the Alliance Nationale pour les Sciences de la Vie et la Santé (Aviesan), a French national institution that includes the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (Inserm), Institut de Recherche pour le Développment (IRD), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and…
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International activities that involve advising the Office of the President and the Board of Directors of FIOCRUZ are linked at two levels, both coordinated by Fiocruz Global Health Center: the first with representation of the Offices of the Vice-Presidents (GPI) and the second with participation by all of the Foundation’s technical, scientific, and administrative units (CTSI).
The International Programming Group (GPI) is dedicated to assisting negotiations with foreign institutions that may generate cooperative programs with participation by the Foundation’s institutes. The GPI can convene…
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Fiocruz currently has six units officially designated as Collaborating Centers of the Pan American Health Organization and World Health Organization. The most recent designation (in 2014) was the Collaborating Center for Global Health and South-South Cooperation, which due to its nature is responsible for assisting the development of the other Centers.
Collaborating Center for Global Health and South-South Cooperation – work program:
Promote Social Determinants of Health, according to the Rio Political Declaration (2011);
Support the Health Systems Structural Networks in health…
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To publicize the Foundation’s activities in international cooperation, Cris works in partnership with the Coordination of Social Communication (CCS) of the Fiocruz Office of the President to publish the Fiocuz International News.
FIOCRUZ INTERNACIONAL NEWS
The Foundation’s various international initiatives are presented in each edition, covering the history of the Center’s activity and thus the majority of the international activities each year.
The following international topics are featured, among others:
Visits by foreign delegations to Fiocruz;
International agreements celebrated in…
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With a strategic vision, Fiocruz Vice Presidency of Education, Information and Communication (VPEIC) has the mission of developing projects, modernizing and integrating practices, as well as supporting innovative initiatives in teaching, scientific information and communication.
In the teaching segment, it covers technical to postgraduate courses. In the field of information and communication, it involves academic, scientific and audiovisual production; the information system; the network of libraries; the publishing house; the museum; news production; and Foundation events.
In each activity…
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Como marco do aniversário de dez anos da sua Ouvidoria Geral, a Fiocruz sediou, em 8 de julho, o 2º Fórum de Ouvidorias Públicas do Rio de Janeiro, abordado diversos aspectos da contribuição das ouvidorias públicas para a democracia e a transparência públicas.
Veja as apresentações a seguir:
II Encontro das Ouvidorias do Rio de Janeiro
Controladoria-Geral da União
Resolução Alternativa de Conflitos - A experiência da CGRAI e a prática internacional
Coordenação-Geral de Recursos de Acesso à Informação da Controladoria Geral da União (CGU)
Democracia Participativa na Saúde - A…
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The biological collections are essential to ensure the biodiversity preservation. At Fiocruz, they perform services of preservation, maintenance, supply, and taxonomic characterization and identification of biological material for research development in science, technology and innovation, and in epidemiological surveillance, in accordance with the national and international norms and legislations in place.
The movement of organization and institutional recognition of the Fiocruz biological collections started in 2006, with the creation of the Fiocruz Permanent Forum of Biological Collections…
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Health-BRC
Biological Resource Center for Health and the Brazilian BRC Network
Based on the experience with its microbiological collections, Fiocruz had dedicated e orts to build the Biological Resource Center in Health (CRB-Health), which will consist of collections of pathogenic microorganisms, related mainly to tropical diseases or those with biotechnological potential in the health fi eld, including bacteria, fungi, protozoans, and viruses, diverse microbiological materials with added value (e.g., taxonomic diversity and/ or biotechnological and/or epidemiological potential), and…
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The Vice Presidency of Environment, Health Care and Health Promotion (VPAAPS) assists and coordinates Fiocruz actions in the areas of its expertise, integrating players, technical, scientific and administrative units and offices to respond to the needs of the Unified Health System (SUS) and the Brazilian State.
For making the articulation between the areas of environment, science, technology, innovation, health and economic and social development, VPAAPS relies on the cooperation of institutional partners and social movements to encourage policies that promote sustainable development,…
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The Casa de Oswaldo Cruz (COC/Fiocruz) and the Center for International Relations in Health (Cris/Fiocruz) will be hosting two international seminars on Bioethics and Leprosy on May 5 - 6. The events are part of the 2016 WHO Global Health Ethics and the Global Health Histories seminars, organized by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centre for Global Health Histories, University of York.
The events will open on May, 5 from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm at the auditorium of the Museum of Life, located at Fiocruz’s campus in Manguinhos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The opening will be attended by…
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The Vice Presidency of Production and Innovation in Health (VPPIS) has the mission of promoting and integrating production and innovation activities at Fiocruz in order to meet and subsidize public policies for the Economic and Industrial Health Complex (Ceis), which ensures the articulation of the productive health complex.
The activities of VPPIS reflect the priority given by Fiocruz to meeting the national demand for a technological and industrial base compatible with the economic development proposals, with the ideas of the Unified Health System (SUS) and the pharmaceutical assistance…
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In the area of South-South Cooperation, and in keeping with the Brazilian government’s diplomatic policy, FIOCRUZ developed the concept of Health Diplomacy to deal with issues that transcend national borders and expose countries to global influences.
The concept consists of establishing international policies, reflections, and actions based on the idea that health is a fundamental human right and acts as a determinant factor for development.
Based on this premise, institutional participation by FIOCRUZ in Brazil’s foreign policy is oriented towards the establishment and consolidation of…
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Work by the Fiocruz Global Health Center) includes contacts, support, and coordination of international projects with the units, institutes, and offices of the Vice-Presidents of Fiocruz, using the Group for International Programming (GPI) and the Technical Chamber for International Cooperation (CTCI) as tools for the formulation and orientation of policies, strategies, and linkages, working under the Center’s coordination.
The Center does the following work:
Introduces the dimensions of global health governance into the various fields of action by FIOCRUZ;
Promotes and monitors exchange…
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The Regional Board of Brasilia (Direb), also known as Fiocruz Brasília, represents the Foundation in view of organs from the Executive and Legislative powers, public and private institutions, besides developing teaching, research, communication and public health accessory activities. The instance of Fiocruz in the Federal capital aims to contribute for the consolidation of the Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS) – the Brazilian health system -, through the formation of strategic boards, of the development and diffusion of innovative technologies, in internal and external cooperation, which respond…
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A Diretoria de Recursos Humanos (Direh) informa que a posse dos candidatos aprovados no último concurso como excedentes terá início na próxima quarta-feira (17/6), no auditório da Coordenação de saúde do Trabalhador (CST), localizado no pavilhão Carlos Augusto da Silva.
Os trabalhadores da unidade estão finalizando os últimos procedimentos relacionados à infraestrutura do local. Já está disponível aos candidatos nomeados e aptos no exame admissional o acesso à agenda para marcar a data da posse. O agendamento se dá exclusivamente por meio do Guia de Admissão e Integração de Servidores da…
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The first generation of children affected by the microcephaly outbreak in 2015 are now around ten years old. Only a minority of these children survived their first year of life. Behind the condition that determines the lives of so many Brazilian children is the set of sequelae of Congenital Zika Syndrome (CZS), a disease that hinders the size of the head and the formation of neurons. They are those most vulnerable to serious complications, combined diseases, and long hospitalization periods, according to research by the Center for the Integration of Data and Knowledge for Health (Cidacs/…
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The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) has published a collection of studies selected by its editors as the most notable and impactful of 2024 in clinical medicine. Among the 14 selected is the work Live, Attenuated, Tetravalent Butantan-Dengue Vaccine in Children and Adults, in which two researchers from Fiocruz Bahia were involved, Aldina Barral and Viviane Boaventura.
Butantan-Dengue (Butantan-DV) is an experimental, single-dose, live-attenuated, tetravalent dengue vaccine that has assessed overall efficacy in an ongoing double-blind phase 3 study in Brazil. Participants were randomly…
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This year marks a decade since the United Nations (UN) established February 11th as the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. The creation of the date draws attention to the importance of seeking gender equity in scientific careers, a space where, for example, the "scissors effect" still prevails: the fact that, although there are already more women than men entering many fields, it is men, and not women, who occupy the majority of leadership positions.
Especially in the last decade, there have been important advances in tackling this inequality. We can mention, for example,…
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