Health and science reporter Ana Bottallo of Sheet, won the 1st Infovacina Journalism Award, focused on reports on vaccines, in the Explanatory and Service category.
The award-winning text was “Covid vaccine technology can benefit neglected diseases”, which addresses how new messenger RNA vaccine development techniques can be investigated for so-called neglected tropical diseases.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), neglected tropical diseases affect 2 billion people worldwide, including 500 million children, and are directly responsible for more than 200,000 deaths annually.
Technological advances in science in recent decades, added to the initiatives of research institutions with pharmaceutical companies, have made it possible to get closer and closer to immunizing agents against zika, chikungunya and dengue.
The report explored these and other initiatives and how research on these immunizing agents has emerged in Brazil.
The Infovacina Journalism Grand Prize was given to the report by Yael Berman, from Agence France Presse, “Certificates used in Nazi Germany are not comparable to the Covid-19 health passport”.
In the same award, the report “There is no way for vaccines to create variants of the coronavirus, scientists explain”, by Fred Santana, from the website Vocativo, won in the Checking category. In the Exclusive Content category, the report “Vaccine Desert”, by Mariana Hallal, from Estadão, was the winner.
The award is part of the Infovacina journalistic mentoring program, organized by Agência Bori, with support from the Sabin Vaccine Institute and the Serrapilheira Institute.
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