Strategies to deal with drug lawsuits in the state of São Paulo, Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Toma, Tereza Setsuko
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Soares, Amanda Cristiane, de Siqueira, Paula Sue Fecundo, Domingues, Robert
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Cadernos Ibero-Americanos de Direito Sanitário (Online)
• DOI: 10.17566/ciads.v6i1.359
• Texto Completo: https://www.cadernos.prodisa.fiocruz.br/index.php/cadernos/article/view/359
• topic: Decisões judiciais. Direito sanitário. Assistência farmacêutic; Judicial decisions. Health law. Pharmaceutical services.; Decisiones judiciales. Derecho sanitario. Servicios farmacéuticos.

The Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS) has made great advances since its creation almost thirty years ago, but it still faces great challenges. Persistent difficulties in providing comprehensive health care may have contributed to the use of the judicial pathway for access to medicines. The phenomenon of health judicialization began to have greater visibility in the state of São Paulo in the early 2000s from the publication of results of some research. After 2005, the increasing volume of lawsuits to obtain medicines and their exorbitant costs led to the implementation of several strategies by the State Department of Health of São Paulo and judicial system instances to deal with the problem. Some results have been achieved, but they are still insufficient, since actions for drugs that do not have their proven efficacy and safety continue to occur. This article presents the strategies adopted in the state of São Paulo to deal with lawsuits to obtain drugs.