Brazil tells WHA that it supports the health innovation financing

During the 63th World Health Assembly - which was held in Geneva, Switzerland, - Brazil sought to create innovative mechanisms for financing R&D in the health care sector.

The Brazilian delegation suggested alternatives to finance innovation in health for replacement of the system supported by the pharmaceutical industry, based on the resulting monopoly patents. One of the reports has been conducted by the Brazilian Commission on Public Health and Intellectual Property (CIPIH) of the World Health Organization (WHO).

According to Brazil's Minister of Health, Jose Gomes Temporao, who participated in the assembly, finding innovative ways is crucial to ensuring access to medicines and other products to health priority, particularly for developing countries.

At the meeting, the minister defended instruments such as a global fund for investment in the sector, for instance, taxes paid by the pharmaceutical industry. Thus, he suggested, it could be possible to comprise a larger amount of diseases that today are not covered by this industry.