Direito a saúde e a dignidade da pessoa humana: acesso a medicamentos e a visão das farmacêuticas

Abstract

Despite the fact that we are in the 21^st century, not all people, especially those most in need, have yet been given the full right of access to essential medicines, a fact that affects the dignity of the human person (DPH). This study aims to emphasize this right for this population strand, an important factor for their survival, within the goal of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), to be achieved by 2030. The study's problematic questions the inhibitors that prevent this right to effective, despite the fact that the Brazilian Constitution and international organizations guarantee it. The applied methodology is bibliographic research and its result shows that DPH is not yet offered to these people, due to the lack of rigid government policy and the lack of adequacy of pharmaceutical companies. Final considerations bring together the author's comments on the matter.