Health vulnerabilities and the importance of integrating local production of strategic medicines for the SUS
Denilson Bastos,
Carlos Gadelha
Abstract:A strengthened local supply chain is an essential and highly relevant condition for universal access to health care. This article enables a movement towards a public policy agenda that involve the entire productive health system, including strategic components of the production chain beyond active pharmaceutical ingredients (API), without which universal health access and health sovereignty become unfeasible, leaving the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS) vulnerable. Within this perspective, qualitative bib… Show more
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