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Coordenada pelo Instituto de Comunicação e Informação Científica e Tecnológica em Saúde (Icict/Fiocruz), a Rede Go Fair Brasil Saúde é uma das signatárias do acordo internacional sobre a abertura da informação de pesquisa - a Declaração de Barcelona. No ato, que contou com representantes de instituições de pesquisa, financiadoras e outras organizações, os presentes assumiram o compromisso de “transformar como a informação de pesquisa é utilizada e produzida”.
A coordenadora da Rede Go Fair Brasil e da Rede de Bibliotecas Fiocruz, Viviane Veiga, afirma que ainda é cedo para falar…
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A Rede Fio-Chagas, ligada ao Programa de Pesquisa Translacional da Vice-Presidência de Pesquisa e Coleções Biológicas (VPPCB/Fiocruz), e a iniciativa Medicamentos para Doenças Negligenciadas (DNDi, na sigla em inglês) promoveram a reunião Ensaio Multicruzi e biomarcadores de cura e progressão para a doença de Chagas. O encontro, na sede da Fiocruz no Rio de Janeiro, discutiu (15/5) o trabalho com o imunoensaio Multicruzi e as iniciativas de cooperação internacional voltadas para os estudos sobre essa doença, que atualmente afeta de 5 a 7 milhões de pessoas. Conforme dados da Organização…
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The “Colloquium: Advances and Perspectives in the Surveillance of Flu Syndromes” organized by the Brazilian Ministry of Health and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) brought together experts from Brazil and abroad at PAHO headquarters in Brasília on Monday, 10 June, to identify advances, challenges and solutions related to the surveillance of respiratory viruses of public health importance in Brazil.
Researcher Marcelo Gomes during Colloquium: Advances and Perspectives in the Surveillance of Flu Syndromes (Photo: Laudemiro Francisco Bezerra)
Among the speakers were representatives…
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At a meeting with the Vice President of the Republic and Minister of Development, Industry and Commerce Geraldo Alckmin, in Beijing, Sinovac announced that it will invest US$ 100 million in the development of cell therapy, vaccine production and monoclonal antibodies in Brazil. Sinovac and Fiocruz also announced their intention to cooperate in the research and development of vaccines to tackle health crises.
Alckmin celebrated the partnership with Fiocruz, recalling that Sinovac had previously collaborated with Brazil, specifically the Butantan Institute. "I took Coronavac," said the Vice…
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Novo episódio do Giro Saúde fala sobre a aprovação da urgêcia na tramitação do projeto de lei (PL) que equipara o aborto ao homicídio e sobre o alerta para os perigos do peeling de fenol que a morte de um empresário gerou.
O destaque da Agência Fiocruz de Notícias traz um estudo que estimou o custo-efeitividade do método Wolbachia no Brasil. Já o Ministério da Saúde aborda o aumento na bolsa de profissionais do programa Mais Médicos, e a redução do número de crianças com cárie no país.
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Roteiro, apresentação e edição: Natalie Kruschewsky
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Em comemoração ao Mês do Orgulho LGBTQIA+, a Editora Fiocruz oferece 20% de desconto em livros sobre gênero e sexualidade. A promoção é válida entre os dias 17 e 30 de junho nas compras realizadas na sede e nas livrarias físicas da Editora Fiocruz ou pela Livraria Virtual.
Veja abaixo os endereços e horários de funcionamento das livrarias.
Livraria da Editora Fiocruz - Espaço Ensp
Espaço Ensp: onde a vida acontece.
Prédio da Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sérgio Arouca (Ensp/Fiocruz) - SN, segundo andar.
Avenida Brasil, 4.365, Manguinhos, Rio de Janeiro/RJ.
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Está disponível para leitura e download a 28ª edição do Radar Saúde Favela, informativo editorado pela Coordenação de Cooperação Social da Fiocruz. A nova edição destaca a temática do direito à vida e maternidade na favela de Acari, Zona Norte do Rio de Janeiro. O número também apresenta debates sobre gestação, psicologia e escuta no cárcere, políticas públicas e a saúde da mulher negra. Acesse a nova edição do Radar Saúde Favela.
Em Debates, seção que tem como objetivo amplificar vozes e demandas de movimentos sociais, organizações e lideranças de favelas e periferias, o texto…
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A technology for the manufacturing of low-cost, open-source 3D bioprinters, developed by the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC/Fiocruz) in collaboration with Veiga de Almeida University (UVA), may soon reach the market. 3D bioprinting allows for creating artificial biological tissues with potential applications in biomedical research, human and animal health, and even in the food industry.
A bio-printer can produce three-dimensional structures similar to biological tissues in the desired shape (photo: Josué Damacena)
The equipment works similarly to a conventional 3D printer. However, while the 3D…
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O Fórum Itaboraí: Política, Ciência e Cultura na Saúde/Fiocruz Petrópolis está avançando com o projeto Multicêntrico, iniciativa que objetiva a aplicação de ferramentas de Tecnologia Social para redução das desigualdades sociais como determinante das iniquidades em saúde em territórios vulneráveis de cinco países da América Latina. Representantes dos institutos nacionais de Saúde Pública da Argentina, El Salvador e México e da Faculdade Latino-Americana de Ciências Sociais (Flacso), no Paraguai, estiveram em Petrópolis para a terceira etapa do projeto, que consistiu na avaliação do uso das…
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A project developed by researchers from the Leônidas and Maria Deane Institute (Fiocruz Amazônia) and the René Rachou Institute (Fiocruz Minas), in collaboration with the Municipal Health Department of Belo Horizonte, shows that the "auto-dissemination" of larvicides by urban mosquitoes can help control diseases transmitted by these same mosquitoes, such as dengue. The project distributed an average of 2,500 "Larvicide Dissemination Stations" (EDLs) across nine neighborhoods in Belo Horizonte over two years. The intervention reduced the incidence of dengue by 29% in these neighborhoods and by…
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We are currently entering a new frontier of knowledge, in which tackling chronic-degenerative diseases, associated with increased life expectancy, has become an undeniable priority. Many current cancer drugs, for example, are subject to failures, relapses and unwanted side effects such as cardiotoxicity and nephrotoxicity. However, with the advent of biological therapies and, more recently, advanced therapies, we are witnessing a real revolution: medicine is becoming increasingly personalized, smaller in scale but highly complex and specialized.
The transformative potential of advanced…
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The Itaboraí Forum: Politics, Science and Culture in Health/Fiocruz Petrópolis is moving forward with the Multicentric project, an initiative that aims to apply Social Technology tools to reduce social inequalities as a determinant of health inequities in five vulnerable Latin American countries. Representatives from the National Public Health Institutes of Argentina, El Salvador and Mexico and from the Latin American School of Social Sciences (FLACSO) in Paraguay were in Petrópolis for the third stage of the project, which consisted of assessing the use of tools such as Participatory Rapid…
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O Instituto de Comunicação e Informação em Saúde (Icict/Fiocruz) vai apresentar uma nova plataforma de pesquisa relacionada a temas de saúde mental. Coordenada pelo Laboratório de Informação em Saúde (LIS), a iniciativa agrega e divulga informações sobre o tema, potencializado pelo suporte da Ciência de Dados. A programação conta com a presença de pesquisadora do Departamento de Análise Epidemiológica e Vigilância de Doenças Não Transmissíveis do Ministério da Saúde (Daent/MS). O evento será realizado na quarta-feira (9/10), às 14h30, e terá transmissão online pelo canal da VideoSaúde.…
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Research led by Fiocruz has shown that the recent outbreak of Oropouche fever in the Amazon region, the widest ever recorded, was caused by a new viral strain, called 'OROV BR-2015-2024'. The peer-reviewed article was published in the prestigious international scientific journal Nature Medicine on an accelerated basis to allow early access to the findings. The final edited version of the paper will soon be published in the journal. Previously, as a way of communicating the results of the research to the scientific community, the study was published in a preliminary version on the medRxiv…
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A Vice-Presidência de Atenção, Ambiente, Promoção de Saúde (VPAAPS/Fiocruz) está participando da organização do Congresso Nacional de Estudantes de Agronomia (Conea), o qual está na sua 64ª edição e será sediado na Fiocruz Mata Atlântica (FMA), em Jacarepaguá. Essa colaboração é essencial para o sucesso do evento e para a promoção da agroecologia e na formação de agrônomos populares. O Conea acontecerá de 15 a 19 de novembro e vai integrar parte da programação da Cúpula dos Povos do G-20, com previsão de abrigar mais de 200 estudantes de todo país
A abertura do evento ocorre, no dia 15…
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In addition to the Fiocruz Publishing House, which concentrates most of the releases of the Foundation, other units also publish works of scientific nature. Many of these titles are available as free access, in consonance with the policy of knowledge democratization.
Fiocruz Publishing House
Founded in 1993, the Fiocruz Publishing House aims to spread the scientific knowledge in the areas of public health, giving visibility to research results.With over 330 titles in the catalog, it publishes works that disseminate not only the academic production of Fiocruz, but also other important studies…
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An article published in the journal The Lancet Infectious Diseases points to the importance of anticipating rapid responses to the risks of vertical transmission (from mother to fetus) of the Oropouche virus, considering the experience of almost a decade of research into the congenital syndrome associated with Zika virus infection. The text, authored by experts from the Zika Brazilian Cohorts (ZBC) Consortium, which includes Fiocruz Bahia researchers Isadora Siqueira, Maurício Barreto and Bethânia Almeida, as well as researchers from other units of the Foundation, presents the main lessons…
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O novo Boletim InfoGripe, divulgado nesta quinta-feira (14/11), destaca aumento de casos graves de Síndrome Respiratória Aguda Grave (SRAG) no Rio de Janeiro em praticamente todas as faixas etárias. Nas crianças e adolescentes o aumento está associado ao rinovírus, enquanto que nos idosos está relacionado à Covid-19, embora as hospitalizações por Covid-19 nessa faixa etária já apresentem sinal de desaceleração. A atualização mostra que o estado de Goiás também apresenta aumento dos casos de SRAG entre crianças, adolescentes e idosos. Referente à Semana Epidemiológica (SE) 45, período de 3 a 9…
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Cadernos de Saúde Pública/Reports in Public Health (CSP) - is a monthly journal produced by Sergio Arouca National School of Public Health (Ensp). The journal publishes original articles on public health, including epidemiology, nutrition, health planning, ecology, environmental health, and social sciences in health, among other related fields. All articles are carefully reviewed by the CSP editorial board, organized on the basis of the peer review system. Submissions are accepted in portuguese, spanish, or english. See the instructions for authors at the CSP’s website.
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Virtual health libraries are a project led by the Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information (Bireme/Paho), along with the Ministry of Health for the expansion of free access to health information.
The Institute of Communication and Information Science and Technology in Health (ICICT) coordinates virtual libraries in various subjects, gathering at the Virtual Health Library (BVS Fiocruz) (english). The BVS Fiocruz portal offers access to ten thematic virtual libraries and to three biographical ones. They are:
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BVS Public Health (portuguese)BVS Maternal Breast…
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Attuned to national and international debates on open access to knowledge, Fiocruz officially launched, in April 2011, its institutional repository, named Arca and managed by the Institute of Scientific and Technological Information and Communication in Health (ICICT).
The Arca aims to widely host and provide the Fiocruz intellectual production, in consonance with the movement for open access to scientific information.
With the repository, research papers, theses and dissertations, technical reports, videos and a large range of digital content originating in research, teaching and technology…
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The main objective of the project is to be a collaborative site between public health academic institutions,offering a holistic view of the public health dissertations and theses.
Therefore the knowledge on public health contained in scientific articles and thesis are gathering into a main search tool. The visitant can find brazilian scientific production, linking to full texts or identifying the library where the original can be found.
Thesis Portal contains bibliographic index, audio interviews with authors, news about defenses and related sites.
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Gathered together in the Wildlife Studies Group (GEVS), researchers from various institutions published, at late September, an article in the British Ecological Society which points out that extreme environmental fires, such as those in the Pantanal in 2020, are likely to become increasingly common, driven by climate change. Carried out in collaboration with Sesc Pantanal employees who have been working in the area for more than 20 years, the study is led by José Luis Cordeiro, a researcher at Fiocruz Ceará, and Luiz Flamarion Barbosa de Oliveira, a professor at the National Museum of the…
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A Escola Politécnica de Saúde Joaquim Venâncio, da Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (EPSJV/Fiocruz), promove, no dia 3 de dezembro, o primeiro webinário internacional do ciclo Crise Estrutural do Capital e Emergência Climática na perspectiva da Determinação Socioambiental da Saúde. Com o tema Crise ou colapso do metabolismo socioecológico? Circuitos do capital produtores de danos ao ambiente e à saúde coletiva, o evento acontece a partir das 13h, em formato presencial no Auditório da Escola Politécnica, no campus Manguinhos da Fiocruz, no Rio de Janeiro; e terá transmissão e tradução ao vivo pelo…
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Fiocruz, the Brazilian Agency for Cooperation (ABC), and the Executive Secretariat of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP in the Portuguese acronym) signed a memorandum of understanding last Monday (November 18) in Lisbon, Portugal, marking a new phase in the structural international cooperation on public health between Brazil and Portuguese-speaking countries. The signing of the agreement was attended by Fiocruz President Mario Santos Moreira and CPLP Executive Secretary Zacarias Albano da Costa. Juliano Féres Nascimento represented ABC at the event.
Memorandum marks a new…
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The Fiocruz libraries are coordinated in a network of cooperation, which aims to qualify the customer service and enhance their actions for the dissemination of scientific and technological information in health. The library collections are available in various units of the Foundation.
Part of the group of physical libraries:
Biomedical Sciences Library
Public Health Library
Women and Children Health Library
Joaquim Venâncio Polytechnical School of Health Library - Emília Bustamante
Library of Science and Health History / Owsaldo Cruz House (COC)
Worker Health and Human Ecology…
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We are currently experiencing an urgent climate concern. In Brazil, intense drought, devastating fires in several biomes and disasters such as the rains that hit the south of the country this year. In the world, floods in the Sahara and in many other countries, rising temperatures and sea levels. For the field of history, although today studies dealing with climate change are more topical than ever, this is not a new subject, since many authors in the 18th and 19th centuries were already thinking about health and disease based on their relationship with the environment and climate. This is…
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The T20 Summit – a G20 engagement group formed by think tanks, research centers, and high-level experts from participating and invited countries – met on November 11-12, 2024, in Rio de Janeiro to conclude the work carried out throughout the year, with more than 300 policy briefs produced and disseminated, presenting proposals to leaders at the Rio 2024 Summit, which took place on November 19-20.
Fiocruz submitted between 15 and 20 policy briefs to the T20 and was the primary driver of discussions related to health, particularly in two of the six task forces where the texts were grouped: Task…
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The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) announced on 11/12 that Brazil is once again measles-free. The official certificate was presented to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and the Minister of Health, Nísia Trindade. In a ceremony at PAHO's headquarters in Brasília, also on Tuesday, researchers and health authorities who contributed directly to regaining certification were honored by the organization. The ceremony was attended by the director of PAHO, Jarbas Barbosa, the organization's representative in Brazil, Socorro Gross, and Minister Nísia.
Marilda Siqueira was honored with…
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Um horizonte de novas oportunidades foi o ponto central para as apresentações institucionais feitas no Seminário Alemanha Brasil, realizado na manhã da última sexta-feira (6/12), no auditório do Centro de Documentação e História da Saúde (CDHS) da Casa de Oswaldo Cruz (COC/Fiocruz). O propósito da atividade foi fortalecer as cooperações entre a Fiocruz e as instituições de pesquisa e ensino da Alemanha e estimular novos intercâmbios interinstitucionais. Antes das palestras, estudantes e pesquisadores da Fiocruz tiveram acesso a materiais diversos sobre os programas de pesquisa e fontes de…
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