This article analyzes hygiene education programs during the first two liberal governments of the Liberal Republic and argues that public health programs did not reach their audience due to local clientelism and political corruption.

In 1906, Doctor Emílio Ribas reorganized the Sanitation Service. A campaign to combat trachoma, an ophthalmic disease, was implemented as part of the project. This recent article analyzes this campaign.

María Isabel Porras (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha) y María José Báguena (Universidad de Valencia) analizan el papel de los llamados “programas país” de la OMS en España desde su admisión en 1951 hasta 1975.

The essay argues that infectious diseases have crucially shaped the past and present of the continent.

Thirty years ago, on September 19, 1990, Law 8,080 was enacted, creating the Unified Health System (SUS). To celebrate this remarkable moment, we highlight some articles and texts already published in our journal and blog about SUS, which is playing a decisive role in this pandemic context.

“The terrible epidemic we are experiencing is evidence not only of the economic, social and environmental forces that neoliberalism unleashed, but also of its inability to build an inclusive future”. Marcos Cueto, science editor of HCS-Manguinhos.

FIOCRUZ mourns the death of co-founder and joint coordinator of the Center for International Relations in Health (CRIS/FIOCRUZ).

Interview with Dr. Jethro Hernández, who examines how homeopaths irrupted in the Mexican medical profession.

He is the first researcher from Fiocruz to be elected senior member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.

Gathered at the Casa de Oswaldo Cruz/Fiocruz, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the team proudly launches the journal’s latest issue.