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South Africa Draws Inspiration From Brazil's Health Care System Despite Skepticism By Some Brazilians, IPS Reports
Inter Press Service reports on how the South African government, in setting up its own universal health coverage scheme, was inspired by Brazil's Sistema Unico de Saude or Single Health System (SUS), which was shaped during the 1980s when the system was restructured to make health care a universal right. However, IPS notes that the news may be met with skepticism by Brazilians with a negative opinion of the country's public health care system. "The SUS made it possible to provide everyone with health care, while reducing the chaos in the health sector," but "[c]orruption, aggravated by insufficient inspections, has contributed to the poor execution of the" system, according to IPS.
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