Health care, including access to medicines, is granted as a citizen's right by the Brazilian Constitution through a … national health system called Unified Health System (SUS). The Pharmaceutical Care Programmes of SUS are, quite often, the only … way a large part of the population has to obtain medication. These programmes exert strong pressure on the public health …

of the document "Brazil: the state of the Union - 2007". Health outcomes in the last decades, health policies after 1988 … and the role of the government in health care are analyzed. Regarding this last topic, problems related to financing …, sector regulation and services production by the Unified Health System are discussed. The study shows that, despite …