[Financialization and oligopolization of private teaching institutions in Brazil: the case of medical schools].

There is a global trend towards the private sector's growing participation in training healthcare professionals, influenced by public policies. In Brazil, private medical schools have developed and expanded with government financing, more recently with support from the More Doctors Program. The study aimed to describe and analyze movements in the corporate reconfiguration of the educational sector, with trends towards oligopolization and financialization related to the recent expansion of medical education in Brazil.

Innovation, development, and financing of institutions of Higher Education in health.

The article analyzes the configuration and trends in institutions of Higher Education and their relationship as components of the Health Economic-Industrial Complex (HEIC). The expansion of higher education is part of the transition from elite to mass systems, with tensions between quantitative and qualitative aspects. Such changes reflect different cultures and are related to international phenomena such as globalization, economic transformations, the development of new information and communication technologies, and the emergence of an international knowledge network.

Assessment of human resources for health programme implementation in 15 Latin American and Caribbean countries.

Background: The health systems in the Americas region are characterized by fragmentation and segmentation, which constitute an important barrier to expanding coverage, achieving integrated primary health care, and reducing inefficiency and discontinuity of care. An assessment of the human resources for health (HRH) programmes that have been implemented at the country level was developed as part of the measurement of the 20 HRH regional goals for 2007-2015, adopted in 2007 by the Pan American Sanitary Conference (CSPA).

Methods: The exercise was a combination of academic research and the development/application of an advocacy tool involving policy makers and stakeholders to influence the decision-making in the development, implementation, or change of HRH programmes while building evidence through a structured approach based on qualitative and quantitative information and the exchange and dissemination of best practices.

A public policy approach to local models of HIV/AIDS control in Brazil.

Objectives: We investigated involvement and cooperation patterns of local Brazilian AIDS program actors and the consequences of these patterns for program implementation and sustainability.

Methods: We performed a public policy analysis (documentary analysis, direct observation, semistructured interviews of health service and nongovernmental organization [NGO] actors) in 5 towns in 2 states, São Paulo and Pará.

Results: Patterns suggested 3 models.

[Asymmetry in international relations, industrial property rights and anti-HIV medication].

This paper analyzes the asymmetry in the international relations as refers to the recognition of industrial property rights in the pharmaceutical industry. It focuses on the impact of such relations upon the access to ARV medication, an issue of worldwide interest due to its connection with the development of the nations. Clashing interests and the position taken by some countries in their patent laws point to a scenario less favorable for the access of peripheral countries to anti-HIV/AIDS medication.