Evandro Chagas Institute

Multicentric study on Chagas disease that seeks to evaluate a new treatment regimen using the drug benznidazole. Currently, existing treatment regimens are long and have frequent side effects, which leads to a high dropout rate among patients. The research proposes testing two shorter benznidazole regimens to see if they are as effective as standard treatment, but with fewer side effects.
The study will have 672 participants and will be carried out in four locations, Bolivia and Colombia. The objective is to analyze the efficacy and safety of new treatment regimens, evaluating the parasitological response in comparison with standard treatment. In addition, an economic assessment will be carried out to analyze direct and indirect costs, including procedures associated with the management of adverse events.

Although CAB LA PrEP has been proven efficacious in blinded randomized controlled clinical trials, additional research is needed to evaluate effectiveness in real world settings as well as to identify effective implementation strategies. The proposed implementation study will assess the safety and effectiveness of open label CAB LA PrEP when offered at public health facilities to cisgender men and transgender or gender non-binary individuals who have sex with persons assigned male at birth. The study will also evaluate two nested implementation strategies, an mHealth education and decision support tool and a WhatsApp injection appointment reminder. The study will also assess overall facilitators and barriers to integrating CAB LA into existing oral PrEP services.

The RECOVER SUS-BRASIL network, made up of excellent academic and research institutions, was formed in response to the emergence of unprecedented public health related to SARS-CoV-2. The Network's objectives are the production of scientific knowledge, the technical and scientific strengthening of participating centers, the sharing of information and experiences with other assistance services and the generation of evidence for public health policies in Brazil. The present proposal aims to increase the magnitude of the Network, proposing two studies to assess the epidemic of COVID-19 in Brazil. The first study deals with the establishment of a prospective cohort of patients hospitalized for COVID-19. Through using standardized data collection procedures, biological samples and biomarkers, this study will be able to describe clinical presentation, severity, risk factors for worsening of the disease. Multiple clinical outcomes of severity of disease, organ dysfunction, hospital mortality, length of hospital stay, hospital readmission and early post-discharge death. Will be biomarkers of inflammation, cellular and humoral immunity were also evaluated to study their association with clinical outcomes, variability of SARS-CoV-2 and the development of immunity in infected individuals through the detection and titration of neutralizing antibodies anti-SARS-CoV-2. The second study 2 will evaluate the COVID-19 epidemic in people living with HIV / AIDS, using SUS databases, such as SIM, SICLOM and SISCEL. This study is particularly relevant since on the one hand it includes a population potentially at greater risk of developing severe forms of the disease, given their underlying condition, as, on the other hand, they are exposed chronically to drugs that could potentially have an effect on SARS-CoV-2. Finally, a major objective of RECOVER SUS-BRASIL is integrate technical and scientific capacities generating scientific production of high relevance and impact and strengthening health and science throughout the country.