Direito à saúde e ONGs's: pesquisa relativa aos mecanismos estratégicos do MSF em auxílio no tratamento de surtos e epidemias

Abstract

Around the world, every day, patients do not have access to healthcare. People are stigmatized, marginalized, neglected, their rights are denied by society, the State or the international community, due to the managerial weakness in offering help. Thus, it is important to note that the increasing complexity of social life has led to the claim for complex rights that require the integration of efforts and strategies, with emphasis on the right to health. In this scenario, the guarantee of human dignity and its list of subsistence rights requires complex mechanisms of action. Thus, this research presents the following question: The strategies and tools of assistance and documentation of medical-humanitarian issues of the NGO Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in outbreaks and epidemics are part of a model of solidarity action with the State in search of effectiveness of the right to health? In the search for answers, a general objective was outlined, in which it seeks to prescribe whether the assistance and tools described in the Medical Activity Reports of 2018 and 2019 are strategic mechanisms to assist countries in the treatment of outbreaks and epidemics. Methodologically, it is intended to face the problem from the general, theoretical and

normative analysis solidified in the specialized literature on the essentiality of medical- humanitarian practice and the strengthening of Health in States that present a weakness in

institutional management in combating outbreaks and epidemics. In relation to the particular scope of the research, research on the practical approaches and strategies of the MSF is sought, through content analysis in relation to the understanding, clipping and categorization of the indicators delimited in the Medical Activity Reports of 2018 and 2019 on outbreaks and epidemics, through the integration of the descriptive and comparative methods. Along this path, the research unfolds in an attempt to understand the phenomenon contained in the research question presented. It is concluded that, for the understanding of the data, exploration of the material and interpretation of the objective elements in the deductive understanding of the research, that the articulation of the analyzed tools — based on methodological

delimitation of the searched data — must be considered important tools of medical- humanitarian practice, since the strategic analysis, epidemiological investigation and

documentation of responses to outbreaks and epidemics in scenarios weakened by crises establish new forms of assistance in primary care. These forms categorize and interconnect solidarity-based promotion and prevention actions in the health-disease process and contribute to the continuity of care for neglected and weakened populations in outbreaks and epidemics, strengthening the production of knowledge and the search for the realization of the right to health at the levels of primary care.