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Vaccination can protect the population against contamination, hospitalization, and death by COVID-19, even in socially vulnerable communities with high transmission rates. This is one of the main conclusions of a new paper of the "Vacina Maré" (vaccinate Maré, in english) research, which evaluates the effectiveness of the Fiocruz/AstraZeneca vaccine against getting sick with COVID-19, in Complexo da Maré, a complex of favelas in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro. The research was recently published on the magazine "Clinical Microbiology and Infection", of the European Society of Clinical…
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The war in Ukraine has been thoroughly divulged, discussed, and explained on all social media platforms, in Brazil and abroad. Its geopolitical, economic, and social consequences have also been explored by specialists of all fields of knowledge and geographical position. However, there is one dimension that has been left out by this widely encompassing debate: the matter of health.
On the other hand, more attentive readers will certainly not have missed the term “others” in the title. It turns out that dozens of other wars are currently ongoing all over the world, in the Global South, but…
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O site Curta Biodiversidade ganhou novo visual e trouxe várias novidades. Reformulado com recursos da Faperj e fruto do projeto Ecologia, História e Saúde: o desenvolvimento de conteúdos audiovisuais sobre a biodiversidade brasileira para instituições de ensino e pesquisa do estado do Rio de Janeiro, o portal apresenta agora informações e vídeos relacionados a três séries de TV, um laboratório de criação de conteúdos audiovisuais sobre a biodiversidade, notícias, um catálogo de espécies e muito mais.
Com três temporadas lançadas e uma quarta prevista para o primeiro semestre de 2023, Parques…
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A study by researchers of Fiocruz and of the University of Columbia has identified promising results in a combination of antiviral drugs for the treatment of COVID-19. Scientists showed that there is a synergy between the substances, inhibiting the enzymes that allow Sars-CoV-2 to multiply more effectively. Together, the drugs may reduce viral replication about ten times more than if taken separately.
The drugs studied are already approved for the treatment of other diseases
The study, published on February 22 on Communications Biology, a Nature publication, showed that inhibitors of…
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Unitaid, the global health agency connected to the WHO, will be financing the implementation of the project for Injectable Pre-Exposure Prophylaxy in Brazil, using long-acting Cabotegravir. With only six injections per year, the method has proven to be more effective than daily oral PrEP in terms of reducing the risk of infection by the virus. The project will be coordinated by the Evandro Chagas National Infectiology Institute (INI/Fiocruz) in a partnership with the Ministry of Health and was announced during the seminar Brazil and Unitaid - current partnerships and future perspectives, at…
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No mês em que se concluiu a quinta sessão da Assembleia das Nações Unidas para o Meio Ambiente (UNEA), a discussão sobre o tema se intensifica, chamando atenção para os desafios e os compromissos dos líderes globais. Foi diante deste cenário que ocorreu, nesta quarta-feira (23/3), o Seminário Avançado em Saúde Global e Diplomacia da Saúde do Centro de Relações Internacionais em Saúde (Cris/ Fiocruz). No webinar, representantes de organismos internacionais debateram os efeitos de uma crise ambiental tripla – mudanças climáticas, poluição e a biodiversidade - e a relação disso com economia e…
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At a meeting that took place last Friday (March 19), representatives of Fiocruz and of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), a German non-profit organization that stimulates research, got together to strengthen bilateral cooperation between the institutions and to discuss possible foment partnerships. As a first step in this direction, a workshop was suggested to evaluate the opportunities, identifying possibilities among ongoing projects and analyzing future lines of research.
Representatives met to strengthen bilateral cooperation between the institutions (Photo: Pedro Paulo Gonçalves…
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Em reunião promovida, na última sexta-feira (18/3), pelo Centro de Relações Internacionais em Saúde (Cris/Fiocruz) e pelas vice-presidências de Pesquisa e Coleções Biológicas (VPPCB) e de Educação, Informação e Comunicação (Vpeic), integrantes do Consulado Geral dos Estados Unidos, no Rio de Janeiro, deram continuidade ao processo de parceria iniciado em 2021. O intuito é ampliar a cooperação científica entre a Fiocruz e instituições americanas.
Intuito do encontro foi ampliar a cooperação científica entre a Fiocruz e instituições americanas (foto: Pedro Paulo Gonçalves)…
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The Fiocruz Genomic Network has released new data on the status of lineages and variants of the Sars-CoV-2 in Brazil, based on the genomic surveillance produced by the Network and by other initiatives. According to the publication, while in December 39.4% of sequenced genomes belonged to the Omicron variant, in January 2022 this rate rose to 95.9%. The variant has now been found in all of the country’s regions. The Network Report shows that omicron now fully dominates the epidemiological scenario of Covid-19 in Brazil. It also highlights technological innovations developed by the Fiocruz…
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As reported by the State Health Secretariats of Rio de Janeiro and Santa Catarina, Fiocruz has identified three cases of the BA.2 lineage of the Omicron variant, using genetic sequencing. Two of the cases occurred in Rio de Janeiro and the other in the southern state of Santa Catarina. The findings were confirmed by the Laboratory of Measles and Respiratory Viruses of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC/Fiocruz), a national reference center for respiratory viruses for the Brazilian Ministry of Health, which has been mapping genomes of the virus since early in the pandemic. The laboratory is part…
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A study analyzed the geographic distribution and the incidence of co-infection with a human T-lymphotropic virus (HTLV) and a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in Bahia, which is an endemic state for both retroviruses. The research was carried out using all samples submitted to serological tests at the Central Public Health Laboratory of Bahia (Lacen-BA), from 2004 to 2013. The total was about 130,000 samples from 358 of the 417 municipalities in Bahia. The research results, coordinated by Fiocruz Bahia researcher Maria Fernanda Grassi, were published in the Frontiers in Medicine journal. In…
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In a geopolitical context marked by disputes and inequalities, there are many economic, social, and environmental challenges in the path of those aiming to reduce these inequalities and achieve better global health outcomes. Based on this point of view, issues such as multilateralism and a possible new world order were discussed last Thursday (February 10) during the first Advanced Seminar in Global Health and Health Diplomacy this year. Promoted by the Fiocruz Global Health Center (CRIS/Fiocruz), the webinar brought together three specialists to discuss perspectives for 2022.
“Health is not…
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COVID-19 diagnostics, therapeutics, and vaccines are powerful reminders: health technologies can help to shape the way in which societies control disease. Challenges in ensuring global, equitable access to these fruits of biomedical research and development (R&D) during the COVID-19 pandemic have highlighted the urgency of reorienting the system towards the public interest. The first step is a clearer articulation of what R&D in the global public interest is. That is what we seek to do here.
There are four major concerns about biomedical R&D, despite its impressive technological…
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Looking at the map, the distance between the countries is big. Within the American continent, Mexico is the Spanish-speaking country that is farthest away from Brazil. But the two nations are closer to each other than it may seem. Fiocruz and Mexican institutions have joint projects, a cooperation that can expand even further, judging by the interest demonstrated by consul Héctor Humberto Valezzi Zafra. Together with the deputy consul in Rio de Janeiro, Ana Luisa Vallejo Barba, the diplomat was received by Fiocruz president Nísia Trindade Lima last Thursday (February 10th) at the Official…
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1900 - Establishment of the Serum-Therapeutic Institute on May, 25.
1904 - Beginning of the construction of the Plague Pavilion, Stables, Aquarium and Dove House construction.
1905 - Beginning of the Moorish Pavilion construction. The name of the Serum-Therapeutic Institute is changed to Manguinhos Experimental Pathology Institute.
1907 - Oswaldo Cruz is awarded with a gold medal at the 14th International Congress of Hygiene and Demography in Berlin for the sanitation work carried out in Rio de Janeiro.
1908 - Decree 6892 changes the name of the the Manguinhos…
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A Fiocruz celebrou nesta terça-feira (8/3) o Dia Internacional das Mulheres. Um dos destaques foi o debate Mulheres em ação na pandemia, que reuniu, nesta manhã, em uma plataforma online, pesquisadoras, gestoras e estudantes, que apresentaram suas trajetórias e conquistas e comentaram os desafios que ainda persistem para milhões de mulheres em todo o mundo. Em vídeo gravado e exibido logo no início do debate, a presidente da Fiocruz, Nísia Trindade Lima, lembrou que a Fundação deu início às atividades pelo Dia da Mulher deste ano em 11 de fevereiro, quando se comemorou o Dia Internacional das…
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A Fiocruz Brasília e o Ministério Público do Distrito Federal e Territórios (MPDFT) assinaram, na última sexta-feira (11/2), um acordo de cooperação para o desenvolvimento do projeto Territórios da Construção de Si: processos de desinstitucionalização de jovens e adolescentes pela maioridade. O foco do projeto é a garantia dos direitos de jovens em situação de risco e vulnerabilidade social – em especial, aqueles que se encontram acolhidos em abrigos institucionais da Assistência Social do DF.
Quando atingem os 18 anos, os adolescentes devem deixar os abrigos, e estudar esse processo de…
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O CoronaFatos está chegando ao fim da sua temporada e neste episódio o programa faz uma espécie de 'resumão' com tudo o que você precisa saber sobre o atual momento da pandemia de Covid-19. A pandemia ainda não acabou e não é possível ter certeza sobre o caminho que ela tomará. Mas com a visualização de uma possível trégua na fase mais aguda da crise, o programa fala sobre como estão as curvas de casos e de mortes provocadas pelo coronavírus, aborda a hipótese da transformação da emergência sanitária em endemia, reforça os cuidados de prevenção que ainda são necessários e esclarece dúvidas…
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This Thursday (17/2) the Fiocruz Genomic Network released new figures on the lineages and variants of the Sars-CoV-2 virus in Brazil. The data are computed every week on the Network’s platform, using data obtained from the EpiCoV platform, from GISAID (Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data), an international platform used to share the genomic data of influenza and Sars-CoV-2 viruses.
The Fiocruz Genomic Network site gathers data about lineages and variants of the Sars-CoV-2 virus in Brazil (Image: Josué Damacena - IOC/Fiocruz)
As previously observed, the Omicron variant is…
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Com o objetivo de ampliar a divulgação de notícias sobre Covid-19 para pessoas com deficiências auditivas, a Coordenação de Comunicação Social (CCS/Fiocruz) lançou um programa semanal que reúne as principais notícias publicadas na Agência Fiocruz de Notícias (AFN) traduzidas para a Língua Brasileira de Sinais (Libras) e com áudio em português.
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During a conference in London, attended by the world’s most prominent health authorities and specialists, Fiocruz president, Nísia Trindade Lima, emphasized the need to decentralize vaccine production and to strengthen investments in research and development, in order to reduce inequalities between countries. Her statement was made during the Global Summit for Preparation for Pandemics, last Tuesday (March 8th). Organized by the Coalition for Epidemics Preparedness Innovations (Cepi) and by the United Kingdom, the event was looking for support for the #100DaysMission campaign, so that in…
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March is celebrated as the month of International Women’s Day, but it is also the time to debate gender inequalities and guarantee of rights. This issue was highlighted by the ambassador of UN Women for Latin America, María del Carmen Squeff, at the Advanced Seminar in Global Health and Health Diplomacy of the Fiocruz Global Health Center (CRIS/Fiocruz), last Wednesday (March 9th). At the event, which was attended by researchers in the field, she highlighted the agency’s priorities for 2022 and emphasized the importance of alliances with institutions such as Fiocruz.
“The origin of…
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An article published in Nature Biomedical Engineering, last Monday (March 7th), reveals the potential use of synthetic biosensors in rapid, decentralized, and low-cost tests for the diagnosis of patients infects with the zika virus. The study was led by scientists of the University of Toronto (CA), who developed the sensors and the portable digital platform where samples are processed, and had the partnership of researchers from Fiocruz Pernambuco to evaluate this technique, using samples of patients from Recife (in the state of Pernambuco). It is one of the first field trials applying…
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In reference to International Women’s Day, the Pasteur Institute, in Paris, paid homage to five female scientists that are part of the institution's international scientific cooperation network. Among them, representing the Americas, was researcher Teca Galvão, from the Laboratory for Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC/Fiocruz).
The homage highlighted the specialist’s education, which includes several foreign institutions, and her commitment to research how the resistance to antibiotics is determined by genetic diversity in bacteria isolated from…
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Entre 2017 e 2019, uma epidemia de febre amarela assolou diversas regiões do país. No Rio de Janeiro, por exemplo, após quase 80 anos sem registros da doença, 289 pessoas foram infectadas e outras 93 morreram. Publicado na revista científica Parasites and Vectors, um estudo liderado pelo Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (IOC/Fiocruz) em parceria com o Instituto Federal do Norte de Minas Gerais (IFNMG) revela características importantes desse surto, que podem contribuir para o planejamento de ações de vigilância e controle do agravo.
A pesquisa cruza dados sobre infecções humanas, de primatas e de…
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Through the Institute of Drug Technology (Farmanguinhos) and French laboratory Servier, Fiocruz signed, last Thursday (March 10th), a Memorandum of Understanding for technical cooperation to develop new drugs against chronic diseases, from a new pharmaceutical platform. This is an innovative technology based on the prolonged release of the active ingredient in the body, resulting in efficacy, safety, and more compliance and practicality for patients.
Nísia Trindade Lima signs the Memorandum of Understanding for technical cooperation with Servier (Image: Cito Oiticica)
Initially, the…
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