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Session six of the PHC interest group’s ten-part seminar series “Primary Health Care: The heart of every health system” that is running once a month throughout the 2022/23 academic year. The seminar series provides an overview of the key functions and features of PHC; its potential in achieving universal health coverage and its role in global health. Seminars are led by speakers working in a range of settings.
The Brazilian Jarbas Barbosa da Silva Jr. will be the New Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) for a Period of 5 yYars. We tell you About his Profile and the Challenges at the Helm of this Fundamental Organization for Health in Latin America
While HTA systems in different countries are influenced by differences in local culture, history, politics and healthcare financing mechanisms, there are key elements common across countries that determine the success of an HTA system. To discuss these tried and tested global practices, the government of India hosted an international symposium in New Delhi in collaboration with the International Decision Support Initiative (iDSI). HTA specialists from Australia, Colombia, India, Thailand, and the UK participated in the event along with senior Indian policymakers and experts from the World Heal...
11 Min Read RIO DE JANEIRO, May 14 (Reuters) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, addressing the nation last month in a social media video, touted the latest in a string of unconventional drugs he says can ease the country’s COVID-19 crisis. Bolsonaro - a vaccine skeptic and promoter of discredited treatments such as hydroxychloroquine - said this new drug, Proxalutamide, would “soon be available to all Brazil.” He invited a little-known Health Ministry official, Helio Angotti, to expand on its promise. Angotti, an eye doctor with no epidemiological experience, cited a domestic Proxalu...
11 Min Read RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) -Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, addressing the nation last month in a social media video, touted the latest in a string of unconventional drugs he says can ease the country’s COVID-19 crisis. Helio Angotti Neto, chief of the Health Ministry's Science, Technology, Innovation and Strategic Inputs department attends a news conference in Brasilia, Brazil June 27, 2020. Carolina Antunes/Brazilian Presidency via REUTERS Bolsonaro - a vaccine skeptic and promoter of discredited treatments such as hydroxychloroquine - said this new drug, Proxalutamide, wo...