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0287/2025 - CHALLENGES AND PERSPECTIVES OF PHARMACEUTICAL ASSISTANCE IN THE CONTEXT OF BRAZILIAN FOREIGN POLICY: AN APPROACH IN LIGHT OF THE DECOLONIZATION OF HEALTH IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH IN THE POST-PANDEMIC PERIOD
DESAFIOS E PERSPECTIVAS DA ASSISTÊNCIA FARMACÊUTICA NO CONTEXTO DA POLÍTICA EXTERNA BRASILEIRA: UMA ABORDAGEM À LUZ DA DESCOLONIZAÇÃO DA SAÚDE NO SUL GLOBAL NO PERÍODO PÓS-PANDÊMICO

Author:

• Jordão Horácio da Silva Lima - Lima, JHS - <jordaohoracio@hotmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8828-7947


Abstract:

The National Pharmaceutical Assistance Policy (PNAF) was the first public policy created through social oversight. The consolidation of the National Health Council as a democratic, pluralistic, and activist space, especially in the approval of the PNAF, coincides with a strategic moment in Brazilian foreign policy and health diplomacy, focused on reconfiguring global geopolitics, especially in North-South relations. This article analyzes how, over the past 20 years, Brazilian foreign policy has been articulated with the defense of health on the international stage, especially in negotiations that affect access to safe, effective, high-quality, and affordable medicines. This is a qualitative, descriptive study grounded in Brazilian foreign policy (PEB), innovation, and intellectual property rights. It concludes that the decolonization of health in the Global South, especially in the post-pandemic scenario, requires a renewed commitment to equity, social justice, and the human right to health. Brazil, with its experience in public health policies and local drug production, has the potential to lead this transformation.

Keywords:

Access to Medicines. Patents. Global Health.

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Lima, JHS. CHALLENGES AND PERSPECTIVES OF PHARMACEUTICAL ASSISTANCE IN THE CONTEXT OF BRAZILIAN FOREIGN POLICY: AN APPROACH IN LIGHT OF THE DECOLONIZATION OF HEALTH IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH IN THE POST-PANDEMIC PERIOD. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2025/Aug). [Citado em 21/06/2026]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/challenges-and-perspectives-of-pharmaceutical-assistance-in-the-context-of-brazilian-foreign-policy-an-approach-in-light-of-the-decolonization-of-health-in-the-global-south-in-the-postpandemic-period/19763?id=19763



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