Portfolio Category: Health

Brazilian public healthcare system is not prepared to assist chronic patients mainly because it is based on a value chain model where different experts contribute to patient wellbeing in a restrict manner. The project was developed in a low-income community where one thousand families are registered in healthcare facility. 43 patients had type II diabetes.

Since 1986, Australian Needle and Syringe Programs (NSPs) have
been an official strategy to reduce the harms of injecting drug use,
including the spread of Hepatitis C and HIV. NSPs provide injecting
equipment at no or low cost. Yet barriers to 100% coverage of new
equipment per injection persist.