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Dourados - MS, 03/01/2024, Vacinação contra dengue começa com alta procura nos postos de saúde. Vacina Qdenga, do laboratório japonês Takeda. Foto: Rogério Vidmantas/Prefeitura de Dourados
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Dengue vaccine offers hope, but is not a solution, says minister

Approximately six million doses are available, sufficient to vaccinate three million people, considering that the complete vaccination schedule consists of two doses.

São Paulo SP, 30/08/2023,  A Secretaria Municipal da Saúde (SMS), por meio do Programa Municipal de Imunizações (PMI), realiza as ações de vacinação extramuro contra Covid-19 e influenza, vírus causador da gripe, nas estações do Metrô, da Companhia Paulista de Trens Metropolitanos (CPTM) e em terminais de ônibus, que ocorre em todas as regiões da cidade. Foto: Paulo Pinto/ Agência Brasil
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Brazil drug authority unveils composition of 2024 flu jabs

Changing the strains used in the vaccines is crucial to the effectiveness of the dose, as the virus adapts and mutates, Anvisa stated.

Ministro da Saúde, Marcelo Queiroga durante visita na linha de produção de vacinas na Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz), no Rio de Janeiro
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Brazil still imports 90% of raw materials for vaccines, medicines

A technical note published by Oxfam Brasil stresses the need to gear up for new disease outbreaks. “While China has more than a thousand factories producing IFA24, in Brazil this number comes near 15,” the document reads.

Rio de Janeiro (RJ) - Vacina contra a esquistossomose. Foto: Gutemberg Brito/IOC/Fiocruz
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Government plans to produce 70% of health supplies by 10 years

According to the health minister, the total planned stand at BRL 23 billion in private investment, plus funding from the National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES) and the Financier of Studies and Projects (Finep), adding up to BRL 42.1 billion.

Fiocruz promove hoje (08), campanha de vacinação contra sarampo e paralisia infantil. Além da vacinação há diversas atividades educativas promovidas pela instituição (Tomaz Silva/Agência Brasil)
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Vaccination in Brazil sets global example, but challenges still abound

For 50 years, the country’s National Immunization Program (PNI) has been carrying out the ambitious mission of immunizing a huge population spread over a continent-sized territory deeply marked by the diversity of cultures and landscapes and contrasting living conditions.