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To promote health and social development, and to generate and diffuse science and technology are ideas that guide the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ), an organization under the Ministry of Health and the most outstanding health science institution of Latin America.
Founded on May 25th 1900, FIOCRUZ was created with the mission of fighting Brazil's most important public health problems. Throughout history, it became a center to strengthen biomedical research and the perception of the country's reality. Today, its mission encompasses development of research; delivery of reference health services; production of vaccines, drugs, reagents and diagnostic kits; education and training of human resources; information and communication; product and service quality control; and the implementation of social programs.
The Evandro Chagas Clinical Research Institute (IPEC) was the first hospital of the country aimed at the conduct of scientific research. IPEC hosts a network of countries in Africa and South and North America, that evaluates new nouvelle drugs to prevent the HIV transmission from mother to child, aimed at identifying the most efficient and safe strategy to prevent HIV infection in babies exposed to AIDS virus.
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Valdiléa Gonçalves Veloso dos Santos, MD, PhD
Graduated in Medicine from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (1985). She got her masters in medicine (infectious and parsitic diseases) at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She got her Doctorate in Public Health at the National School of Public Health Sergio Arouca (2008). Dr. Veloso is a researcher of the Evandro Chagas Clinical Research Institute. Since 1988 she has been working in clinical trials with the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN), AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG) and the French Agency of Research on AIDS and Hepatitis (ANSR).
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