The sanitation issue in the public health field

Inadequate sanitation-related diseases affect vulnerable populations all over the world. This study argues that sanitation remains virtually invisible in the Brazilian health sector agenda.

The right to health

The blog of HCS-Manguinhos interviewed two Brazilian experts on Public Health

El viaje de El Comercio a un leprosorio en 1960

Este especial cuenta la historia de una misión de periodistas de El Comercio al leprosorio de San Pablo en la Amazonia peruana. Lea el reportaje y los artículos sobre lepra de HCS-Manguinhos.

Transnational knowledge during the Cold War

Our current issue is now available online. It features a dossier on science during the Cold War, a period that affected not only technology related to the military and space races, but also research in biomedicine and other fields.