An overview of health-related industrial biotechnology in Latin American and the Caribbean
Bull Pan Am Health Organ
; 30(2): 95-105, Jun. 1996.
Artigo
em Inglês
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| ID: med-3167
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JM3.1
Localização: JM3.1; RA421.P21
ABSTRACT
There is some uncertainty about the extent to which Latin America and the Caribbean have participated in the advances of health-related industrial biotechnology. This article reviews the available literature and seeks to provide an overview of the prevailing situation. In general, national governments and multinational agencies have provided most of the health-related biotechnology investments within this region. Efforts to achieve technology transfers, a subject of prime concern, have been developed by a number of programs including the WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, the UNDP/UNESCO/UNIDO Regional Biotechnology Program for Latin America and the Caribbean; PAHO's Program for the Regional Development of Biotechnology as Applied to Health; the PAHO/WHO Expanded Program of Immunization (EPI); and PAHO's Regional System of Vaccines (SIREVA). Regarding current production capacity, some successful efforts have been made to produce a variety of therapeutic products including recombinant and natural ionterferons, interleukins, insulin, and recombinant streptokinase; but in general the region's current potential in this area is at best incipient and uncertain. However, the region does have a limited ability to make diagnostic products and a well-established capacity for vaccine development. Overall, this picture suggests that the region has the potential to play a small but significant role in health-related biotechnology (AU).
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Bases de dados internacionais
Contexto em Saúde:
ODS3 - Meta 3.8 Atingir a cobertura universal de saúde
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Agenda de Saúde Sustentável para as Américas
Problema de saúde:
Arranjos Financeiros
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Objetivo 7: Evidência e conhecimento em matéria de saúde
Base de dados:
MedCarib
Assunto principal:
Biotecnologia
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Serviços de Saúde
Aspecto:
Determinantes sociais da saúde
Limite:
Humanos
Idioma:
Inglês
Revista:
Bull Pan Am Health Organ
Ano de publicação:
1996
Tipo de documento:
Artigo