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0024/2017 - Expert communities and interest-formation in the Brazilian AIDS program
Comunidades de especialistas e formação de interesses no programa de aids do Brasil

Author:

• Regina Ferro Lago - Lago, Regina Ferro - Rio de Janeiro, RJ - Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz, Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública - <regina@ponze.ufrj.br>

Co-author(s):

• Nilson do Rosario Costa - COSTA, NR - Rio de Janeiro, RJ - Fundação Oswaldo Cruz , Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sergio Arouca - <nilson@ensp.fiocruz.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8360-4832

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Abstract:

The article examines the role of the Technical Advisory Committee for antiretroviral therapy of the Brazilian AIDS program for its mediation in the decision-making process of including new antiretroviral drugs to Unified Health System by the end of the 2000 decade. Document analysis was performed and interviews with key informants from the governmental sphere and professionals were conducted. The article features the Technical Advisory Committee as an "expert community", defined as a network of individuals with expertise and competence in a particular sphere and whose knowledge is relevant in critical areas of public policy decision. It also indicates that the decision-making process for inclusion of antiretroviral drugs in the Brazilian program was strongly incremental, considering the expectations of the innovative leader companies of pharmaceutical market. The work describes thus the results of the interaction of government interests, pharmaceutical industry and experts in the implementation of a relevant international policy. It provides arguments and evidence for understanding the role of expert communities on a sectoral public policy so far analyzed predominantly from the perspective of social movements.

Keywords:

Health Policy Antiretroviral Therapy Conflict of Interest Pharmaceutical Industry

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Lago, Regina Ferro, COSTA, NR. Expert communities and interest-formation in the Brazilian AIDS program. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2017/Jan). [Citado em 21/01/2025]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/expert-communities-and-interestformation-in-the-brazilian-aids-program/16070?id=16070



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