June 2016
André Felipe Cândido da Silva and Marcos Cueto, Scientific Editors of HCSM.
In the editors’ note of our new issue, André Felipe Cândido da Silva and Marcos Cueto highlight the climate of great uncertainty due to the efforts to oust Brazil’s president, Dilma Rousseff, who was democratically elected in 2014.
The editors warn us of the threats to health imposed by the current administration – while Dilma Rousseff is judged in impeachment proceedings –, including steps to intensify the fiscal adjustment, thereby undermining social policies and government initiatives in vital sectors like health.
“The foundations supporting the democratic rule of law are being threatened, as are the social conquests endorsed in Brazil’s newest charter,” it says.
Trusting in a better future, the editors present the dossier about the cooperation between Brazil, Cuba and Haiti, and mention that this issue presents articles translated into English for the first time using Wellcome Trust funds, which fosters the journal’s project of internationalization.
“At a moment when Brazil’s public institutions and their periodicals are in the tight grip of a financial squeeze, it is also greatly heartening to receive this monetary assistance,” concludes the letter.
