December 2020
Health education posters used by the Department of Health and Public Assistance of Bahia State. In Education and health propaganda: repercussions of a Brazilian sanitarian’s training at the Rockefeller Foundation
Leishmaniasis is the only neglected tropical disease which is still growing. Brazil is the country in the Americas with the most cases of this disease in its three forms: cutaneous, mucocutaneous, and visceral.
The article Leishmaniases of the New World from a historical and global perspective, from the 1930s to the 1960s, by Jaime Larry Benchimol, Researcher and professor at Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, shows how visceral leishmaniasis established itself as a public health problem in Brazil.
Published in HCS-Manguinho’s special issue the meanings of global public health, it covers the disease until the 1960s, when it began to appear on the international health agenda.
According to the article, knowledge production and efforts to control the disease have mobilized health professionals, government agencies and institutions, international agencies, and rural and urban populations. Benchimol’s study also addresses the exchange and cooperation networks they established.
Jaime Benchimol is the author of A History of Laishmaniasis in the new world (late 19th century to early 1960s).
The beginnings of bacteriology in Brazil Jaime Benchimol reviews the introduction and development of Pasteurian medicine in Brazil.
The Politics of Vaccination The article about the yellow fever vaccine in Brazil was written by Jaime Benchimol, member of our scientific editorial council.
Zika and Aedes aegypti: new and old challenges The current issue of HCSM (vol.24 no.4 Oct./Dec. 2017) features a debate about the zika epidemic, which came to the fore when the disease raised a series of concerns related to birth defects.
