Recent Posts

World AIDS Day in HCS-Manguinhos

According to Unaids Data, people living globally with HIV/Aids rose from 39.5 million in 2022 to 39.9 million in 2023. At the same time, new HIV infections have dropped from 1.4 million to 1.3 million in the same years, as well as deaths from the disease.

Medicina y salud pública en América Latina. Una historia

El libro de Marcos Cueto, editor científico de HCS-Manguinhos, y Steven Palmer, profesor de la Universidad de Windsor (Canadá), presenta un profundo estudio histórico de la medicina en América Latina, desde su situación en el período colonial, hasta la actualidad.

I Brazil-Germany International Conference: circulation, exchange, contact zones

The conference coincides with the bicentennial of German immigration to Southern Brazil and will address the complex relations between the two countries. Twenty-four researchers from Brazil, Germany, Spain, Israel, and Italy will come together to discuss topics such as ecology, vectors, health and the climate crisis, natural and social sciences, wars, refugees, and methodologies involving archives from both sides of the Atlantic.

¡Conozca a los invitados internacionales del evento del 30° aniversario de HCS-Manguinhos!

El evento cuenta con dos invitados internacionales: Vivette García, editora de la Revista Tapuya y profesora en la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México y José Ragas, profesor en la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

Open Science and Scientific Journals in the Humanities

In 2024, the Journal História, Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos completes 30 years of uninterrupted publication, and, to celebrate them, we have prepared a special seminar to discuss important aspects of scientific publishing, such as open science, journal evaluation, and science communication.

From the “dirty port” to the Disinfection Service of the Port of Rio de Janeiro (1893-1911)

This article, recently published in HoST— Journal of History of Science and Technology— demonstrates how sanitation was one of the many issues that led to heavy opposition to the operation of the Port of Rio de Janeiro at the end of the nineteenth century.