Zika virus, access to care and the state in Brazil
Channel: Institute of Development Studies
Date: 2019-02-21

IDS Health and Nutrition Seminar

Zika virus, access to care and the state in Brazil

Zika virus has faded from the headlines since the major outbreak which began in Northeast Brazil in 2015 was apparently brought under control. However, the outbreak has left a legacy of complex challenges for the carers of the many children with Congenital Zika Virus Syndrome (CZVS), for their families and communities and for the under-resourced departments tasked with responding to their health and social care needs in cities and towns across Brazil. 

For the past three years IDS and University of Sussex researchers linked to the Centre for Cultures of Reproduction, Technology and Health (CORTH) have worked with colleagues from the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro State (UFF) and the University of Brasília (UnB) who have been carrying out ground-breaking research with the mothers of children with CZVS, their associations and their allies within civil society, academia and the bureaucracy. 

This seminar will present the key findings from this collaboration, which has been supported by a Newton Fund Institutional Links grant.

Wednesday 20 February, 1-2pm, Room 221

Presenters: Russell Parry Scott (UFPE), Marion Quadros (UFPE), Jeni Vaitsman (Fiocruz) and Lenaura Lobato (UFF)

Chairs: Hayley MacGregor (IDS), Russell Parry Scott (UFPE)

Discussant: Maya Unnithan (CORTH, University of Sussex)