The World Health Organization (WHO) and Medecins Sans Frontieres recently have proposed the term "neglected diseases", referring to those that have a higher occurrence in the developing countries and "most neglected", exclusive of developing countries. Leishmaniasis, Chagas disease, trachoma,...

Access to medicines in Brazil can be studied using different analytical approaches. One of these approaches is the household spending on medicines, whose weight over the income of the Brazilian families is widely known. The study aims to describe the spending on medicines of the Brazilian...

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...