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Access to medicines: a fundamental pillar of health systems

SEPTEMBER – OCTOBER 2024SEE FULL NEWSLETTER Ensuring that people can receive the medicines they need is an ethical and health imperative that requires the collaboration of multiple actors: governments, health institutions, pharmaceutical companies, and civil society organizations. Medicines improve quality of life, reduce mortality, and are key to

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Evidence has always been necessary, but it also has to arrive in a timely manner

JULY – AUGUST 2024SEE FULL NEWSLETTER On the eve of World Evidence-Based Health Day (EBHC), it is necessary to highlight the importance of a comprehensive approach to address the polycrisis and transform knowledge into action. World Evidence-Based Health Day (EBHC), which is celebrated this year, is a day of great interest for health professionals and the public.

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Identification of diabetes risk in the population: a field experience

MAY – JUNE 2024SEE COMPLETE NEWSLETTER A validated questionnaire that has already been answered by around 6.000 people, revealed that 60% have a moderate or high risk of developing the disease. Worldwide, almost 1 in 10 adults between 20 and 79 years old live with diabetes. And in Argentina in particular the prevalence of

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Engulfed in the Global South

JANUARY – FEBRUARY 2024VIEW COMPLETE NEWSLETTER With a firm vocation for global cooperation, at the IECS we also seek to accentuate it with those developing countries that make up this group or “region” with diverse characteristics and common aspirations. The term “South-South cooperation” is used to describe the exchange of resources, technology and knowledge between countries in

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Antimicrobial Resistance: Its impact on lethality in Latin America

NOVEMBER – DECEMBER 2023VIEW COMPLETE NEWSLETTER Infections due to bacteria resistant to antibiotics double the risk of death, according to an exhaustive systematic review and meta-analysis of fifty studies in the region. Almost 100 years after the accidental discovery of penicillin, antibiotic resistance is a public health problem

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Six “phenotypes” of newborns to better identify those most vulnerable

SEPTEMBER – OCTOBER 2023VIEW COMPLETE NEWSLETTER Going beyond the classic classifications to evaluate the risk of death and long-term complications would allow us to focus efforts on those who really need it most and implement preventive interventions. By Mag. Verónica Pingray* Although the classic way of identifying newborns at higher risk of death

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A “powerhouse” of products and actions

JUNE – AUGUST 2023VIEW FULL NEWSLETTER We opened a unit that aims to contribute to increasing the global impact of the IECS through the development of various communication strategies and materials. In a well-known lecture that he gave in Cambridge in 1959, the British physicist, novelist and civil servant Charles Percy Snow postulated that there were two cultures, that of the

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Why is cost-effectiveness more important today than ever in Latin America?

MAY – JUNE 2023SEE COMPLETE NEWSLETTER In an inequitable region with scarce resources, economic evaluation cannot be left out in coverage decisions for medications, devices and other technologies. And an equation we developed can help that process (see video). According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the

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