Implementation period: December 2024 to September 2026

Presentation and description:

The main objective of the Tributaries (in Portuguese, Afluentes) project is to reduce the morbidity and mortality associated with failures in the care of pregnant women and people with hypertension in underserved areas of the Brazilian Legal Amazon. To make this possible, digital tools will be introduced for interaction with the population via WhatsApp, facilitating access to Primary Health Care services in addition to fostering self-care for pregnant women and people with hypertension. The clinical protocols for prenatal care and hypertension will also be improved, based on the characteristics of the region and its care modalities. In addition, the connection network will be expanded, with the installation of the internet in the Basic Health Units (UBSs).

The process will continue with its implementation and institutionalization through partnerships with the Municipal Health Secretariats of the project’s target regions and local strategic actors.

Beneficiary description:

The beneficiaries are the populations of six municipalities in the state of Pará, on the North region of Brazil, with the main focus being the health of pregnant women and people living with systemic arterial hypertension in the region.

Municipalities served:

Pará: Aveiro, Belterra, Curuá, Itaituba, Oriximiná and Santarém.

To access the interactive map with all the municipalities supported by the Together for Health program, click here.

The project is supported by Together for Health, a BNDES initiative, in partnership with private donors, with the goal of gathering resources to expand access to public healthcare for the population in the North and Northeast regions of Brazil.

Executor:

The Instituto de Estudos para Políticas de Saúde (translated freely to Institute for Health Policy Studies (IEPS)) is a non-profit, independent and nonpartisan organization with offices in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Brasilia. It aims to contribute to the improvement of public healthcare policies in Brazil. It defends that the entire Brazilian population should have access to quality healthcare and that the use of resources and the regulation of the healthcare system should be as effective as possible. It also defends that access to healthcare should respect the principle of equity, with the Brazilian State playing a relevant role, of a distributive nature, in this process. It believes that the best way to achieve this goal is through evidence-based public policies that are designed, implemented and monitored in a transparent manner – always seeking the support of society.

Supporters:
The National Bank of Economic and Social Development (BNDES) is a federal public company linked to the Ministry of Development, Industry, Trade and Services. It is the Federal Government’s main instrument for long-term financing and investment in all segments of the Brazilian economy, with the aim of improving the lives of generations, promoting economic, social and environmental development. It operates throughout the country, from its office in Rio de Janeiro (RJ), where its activities are concentrated, with official headquarters in Brasília (DF) and regional offices in São Paulo (SP) and Recife (PE).

Umane is an independent, non-partisan and non-profit civil society organization that promotes initiatives in the field of public health with the aim of contributing to a more resolute Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS) and improving the quality of life of people living in Brazil. Umane operates through three programs: Comprehensive Care for Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases (DCNT), with initiatives to control risk factors, screening, expanding access to health and monitoring risk factors in Primary Health Care; Strengthening of Primary Health Care (APS) as the coordinator of care in SUS, through support for initiatives aimed at improving operations, team productivity, integration of services and the incorporation of new technologies into the health system; and the Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health program, funding programs that track and monitor unfavorable outcomes during pregnancy and health conditions of children and adolescents in the context of Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases and risk factors.

Manager:

IDIS – Institute for the Development of Social Investment, is a civil society organization founded in 1999 and pioneer in technical support to social investors in Brazil. With the mission to inspire, support and promote strategic philanthropy and its impact, they serve individuals, families, companies, corporate and family run institutes and foundations, as well as with civil society organizations, in actions that transform realities and contribute for the reduction of social inequality in the country. Their actions are based on the tripod of generating knowledge, offering advisory and developing social impact projects that contribute to the strengthening of the ecosystem of strategic philanthropy and of giving culture.

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