# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/odette-ferreira
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:24:17.590Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/odette-ferreira"
name: "Odette Ferreira"
slug: "odette-ferreira"
description: "Maria Odette Santos Ferreira was a Portuguese professor of microbiology who played an important role in research on HIV, through the identification of the HIV-2 virus in association with the Pasteur Institute of Paris. She was also the coordinator of the Portuguese programme to fight AIDS, overseeing the \"Say no to a second-hand syringe\" project, which resulted in the collection and exchange by pharmacies of 43 million used syringes between 1993 and 2008."
tagline: "Portuguese microbiologist and HIV researcher"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b2/OdetteFerreira1.jpg/330px-OdetteFerreira1.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Portugal"
  isoCode: "PT"
birthDate: "1925-06-04"
deathDate: "2018-10-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.37
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.671310666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odette_Ferreira"
    title: "Odette Ferreira"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%93%E0%A6%A1%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%9F_%E0%A6%AB%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BE"
    title: "ওডেট ফেরেরা"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odette_Ferreira"
    title: "Odette Ferreira"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odette_Ferreira"
    title: "Odette Ferreira"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odette_Ferreira"
    title: "Odette Ferreira"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odette_Ferreira"
    title: "Odette Ferreira"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10340240"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump