Foreign Investors Look to Brazil’s Health Sector
Foreign direct flows to Brazil totaled US$62 billion in 2014 and the country is now the fifth destination for foreign...
February 25, 2015Topic
healthcare
Rio Governor Pezão Announces Budget Cuts at Inauguration
Luis Fernando de Souza, known as Pezão (Big Foot), was sworn in as Rio de Janeiro’s state governor on Thursday,...
January 3, 2015
Favela Services Struggle After Pacification
The Instituto Pereira Passos (IPP), the agency responsible for the UPP social program, has now announced the creation of an...
September 3, 2013
Brazil’s Doctor Controversy Continues
The Brazilian doctors in the More Doctors Program began working last Monday amid reports of no shows, as the controversy...
September 3, 2013
The Curmudgeon on Foreign Doctors (Revisited)
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The Cubans are coming! The Cubans are coming! Card Carrying Communists...
August 27, 2013
Brazilians Support Bolsa Família Welfare
Nearly three-quarters of Brazilians are in favor of the Bolsa Família, an anti-poverty program that gives cash to families in...
January 15, 2013
Healthcare Plan Needs a Funding Source
Congress has to decide on the terms of Amendment 29, which will determine a mandatory percentage of revenue to be...
September 6, 2011