By André Campos and Carlos Juliano Barros | published originally on June 12, 2020 | |
29/06/20
Legal farms that receive cattle raised in banned areas and mask its illegal origin. Property titles that elude monitoring by meatpacking companies. Rural properties leased to third parties that elude control by meatpackers. These are common situations in the Amazonian...
By Diego Junqueira |
17/06/20
Facing breast cancer for six years, retired nurse Joyce Guimarães is unmoved. When she started treatment with a drug that she could get for free at Brazil’s publicly funded healthcare system (SUS), she started to feel more motivated. But the ampoule disappeared...
By Diego Junqueira and Reinaldo Chaves |
17/06/20
What makes a millionaire businessman from São Paulo from the pharmaceutical industry to spend 1.5 million BRL (US$ 404,000) in the last electoral campaign and guarantee an alternate seat in the Senate for Tocantins? No longer needing “intermediaries”,...
By Diego Junqueira |
17/06/20
“I would certainly pay for my cure, but I don’t have 364,000 BRL (US$ 87,500),” says biologist Fabiana Sobral, 41, who has been waiting at SUS (Public Health System) for medications against hepatitis C for three months. Like the biologist, about...
By Diego Junqueira |
17/06/20
“Who owns the patent for this vaccine?”, asks the journalist on TV. “The people, I would say. There is no patent,” replies the American doctor and scientist Jonas Salk in the famous interview he gave in 1955, after launching the first vaccine against...
By Diego Junqueira |
17/06/20
The Brazilian Institute of Industrial Property (Instituto Nacional da Propriedade Industria – Inpi) may cease to be an autonomous federal agency and be transferred to the group of organizations known as “Sistema S” (Photo: Fernando Frazão/Agência...
