Bolivia was selected to host the meetings of the CUIDA Chagas international consortium (United Communities for Innovation, Development and Care for Chagas disease), a project supported by Fiotec, between March 21 and 23. The institution was represented by project analyst Luiz Abiel Martins, who was in the company of representatives of Fiocruz and of international partners for this initiative.
The goal of the meetings was to strengthen ties, discuss the first technical activities of the project and to align management processes for the financial part. Within the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, the project is coordinated by the Evandro Chagas National Infectiology Institute (INI/Fiocruz), with Andrea Silvestre de Sousa as main researcher and head of the Laboratory of Clinical Research on Chagas disease.
Martins says the visit was crucial to ensure the alignment of expectations and deliveries that the project demands. “Being this close in such a complex project as the CUIDA Chagas made all the difference in the success of its implementation.”
The project
On April 14th, 2021, World Chagas disease Day, the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation took a great step in the fight to eliminate the congenital transmission of the disease in Latin American countries, when it signed an agreement with Unitad through the CUIDA Chagas project - United Communities for Innovation, Development and Care for Chagas Disease.
Coordinated by the Evandro Chagas National Infectiology Institute (INI/Fiocruz), the project is co-financed by the Brazilian Ministry of Health and supported by the Fiocruz Support Foundation (Fiotec) and intends to reduce the possibility of transmission of Chagas disease to new mothers and their babies, eliminating this avoidable contamination pathway.
