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Initiatives to Promote Access to Medicines After the Publication of National Policy on Comprehensive Care of People With Rare Diseases in Brazil
2021-11-11
Abstract excerpt
<h4>Background: </h4> Rare diseases affect a small number of people compared to prevalent diseases' estimates. The vast majority of these diseases are of genetic origin, have no cure, are chronic and can lead to death. Although the right to access to medicines is included in the constitutionally guaranteed right to health in Brazil, problems in the supply of medicines for rare diseases are reported in the country....
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- Literature Corpus work
- edc1df2e-eff6-5b0c-9d43-497ec939fad9
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1000508/v1
