Fiocruz International News - May 2023

Partnership with India seeks faster and lower-cost diagnosis for tuberculosis
Fiocruz Pernambuco has been concentrating efforts on the development of new diagnostic tests for TB that are efficient, practical, fast and accessible to population, especially to the most vulnerable groups and to the Brazilian public health system
Fiocruz receives American authorities to discuss cooperation in health
The undersecretary for Economic Growth, Energy and Environment, José W.Fernandez, the attaché in the Department of Health and Human Services at the embassy, Kristin Kelling, and congressmen were at the Foundation
New cooperation with World Mosquito Program will help control arboviruses
The mosquito biofactory will have an annual production capacity of up to 5 billion Wolbitos, as the 'Aedes aegypti' mosquitoes with the Wolbachia bacteria are known. Method reduces incidence of dengue, chikungunya and zika
BCG vaccine does not protect against COVID-19 in healthcare workers
A world-leading international trial into the immune-boosting benefits of the tuberculosis vaccine, BCG, the BRACE trial was led by Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and published in the New England Journal of Medicine
Increase in malaria cases has a direct correlation with illegal mining
This is what a study conducted by the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC/Fiocruz) in partnership with other institutions showed. The work was published in the Malaria Journal and analyzed data on the disease from 2010 to 2020
Article: The health challenge in the restoration of UNASUR
Coordinator of Fiocruz Global Health Center, Paulo Buss analyzes how the economic and social consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic call for reflection and demand the resumption of health among the priorities of the organization
Partnership between the Foundation and Bayer strengthens the treatment of Chagas disease
The Institute of Drug Technology (Farmanguinhos/Fiocruz) and the German multinational signed a Memorandum of Understanding that establishes the basis for assessing a future cooperation agreement for the supply of Nifurtimox to the Brazilian government
Fiocruz's scientific journals: a reflection from women who produce them
The idea of Open Science is to make all scientific process transparent, inclusive, and democratic, as much as possible. This is a goal for Fiocruz since 2016. But to have a real Open Science includes changing stagnated ideas in science itself