Hygiene education in rural Colombia, 1930-1946

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.

Trachoma Campaign in São Paulo

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.

la Organización Mundial de la Salud en el desarrollo de la virología en España

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.

Rethinking the impact of Latin America’s forgotten pandemics

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

30 years of SUS in our pages

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.

Covid-19 and Globalization Epidemics

“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 doctor José Roberto Ferreira

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

Understanding social and cultural values through homeopathy

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

Ensp/Fiocruz researcher Ricardo Ventura Santos elected senior member of the ABC

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

HCS-Manguinhos team celebrates its latest issue

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