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While being the smallest of the five major healthcare markets in Latin America, Peru has demonstrated steady and consistent growth from 2014 to 2016.

Brazil began selling self-tests for HIV virus in pharmacies, becoming the first Latin American nation to market these tests.

In recent decades, overweight and obesity have taken on alarming proportions. It is an epidemic that affects 40 million boys and girls in the world, 10 million more than two decades ago.

Approximately 40 million people in Mexico suffer from allergy that affects the quality of life of families and causes school and work absenteeism.

A report by the Colombian Association of Hospitals and Clinics (ACHC) revealed that the debt to hospitals and clinics for the provision of health services in the country reached USD7.3trillion, [...]

The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) reported that cancer was the second leading cause of death in Latin America.

As in other global emerging markets, robust growth of the pharmaceutical market in Latin America is fueled by the region’s emerging market dynamics such as a growing middle class, favorable [...]

The public health system is collapsing in Venezuela, where more than half of the operating theaters are not operational and the shortage of medicines in pharmacies exceeds 80%.

The theft in medicines has led to the loss of approximately USD2.7 million and, also contributes to the rise of illegal trade of these products in the open market (street vendors and internet).

Pharmaceutical companies across the globe earn multi-million dollars by raising the price of their medicines arbitrarily.