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Table 2 Selected BRICS countries’ institutions

From: ‘BRICS without straw’? A systematic literature review of newly emerging economies’ influence in global health

Country

Name of institution

Public or private

Sphere of influence

Selected health issues

Brazil

Agência Brasileira do Cooperação (ABC)

Public

Regional bilateral; Africa

Malaria; HIV/AIDS; universal health care; nutrition; human milk banks; surveillance; technology transfer

Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz)

Public

Latin America

R&D; production of vaccines, reagents, drugs and diagnostics; human resource training; nutrition

Russia

Roscooperation (inter-ministerial commission)

Public

Russia’s fledging international aid agency

International health development

Medical schools

Public and academic sector

CIS and Asia

Training for 20,000 medical students annually; disease surveillance

India

Public health foundation of India

Public-private funded

Nationally and bilaterally with US and UK

Established a network of public health schools

Aravind Eye Care

Private

Nationally; China and Egypt

Technical assistance for eye care

Dept. of Biotechnology

Public

National

Biotechnology Innovation

National AIDS Research Institute

Public

National

Medical research

China

China National Biotec Group (CNBG)

Public-private

National

Vaccine innovation

Shanghai Dahua Pharmaceutical Co.

Public-private

National

Women’s condom

South Africa

Treatment Action Campaign; AIDS Law Project

Not-for-profit non-government organization

National

Activism for access to drugs

 

Desmond Tutu AIDS Centre

Public

National and bilateral with US and Europe

R&D and clinical research focused on infectious diseases