Desafios do processo de implantação dos medicamentos das hepatites virais B e C no componente estratégico da assistência farmacêutica no Estado do Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

Brazil is a signatory country to the World Health Organization (WHO) document for the elimination of viral hepatitis by 2030. One of the strategies to eliminate viral hepatitis is to increase the number of diagnoses and treatments. The migration of drugs for chronic viral hepatitis B and C from the specialized component to the strategic component of pharmaceutical care was regulated by ordinance 1537 of the Ministry of Health of June 2020 and standardized by Technical Note 319 of 2020. A schedule was organized for this transition with the steps of the process and implementation of the logistics and dispensing system (SICLOM) in the states. SICLOM is a user registration system, drug dispensing, inventory control, evaluation of drug prescription criteria, in addition to issuing reports on the quantity of drugs dispensed. A fundamental step in the process was the agreement between the Municipal Dispensing Units (UDM) within the scope of the Regional Inter-management Commissions (CIR) and, later, in the Bipartite Inter-management Commission (CIB) to decide that these units would start the process as pharmacies that dispense hepatitis drugs. B and C in the strategic component, using the SICLOM system, in the State of Rio de Janeiro. The objective of this work is to describe the process and evaluate the results related to the number of service points and quantitative of treatments dispensed from July/2021 to February/2022 in the State of Rio de Janeiro. The methodology included a literature review on the role of treatment as a strategy to eliminate viral hepatitis, and the description of the activities planned and carried out in the timeline since the beginning of the process after the legal basis and the publication of norms, and the extraction of data and information on the number of treatments from SICLOM. The migration resulted in 1084 treatments from July to December 2021, corresponding to 56.4% of the total 1922 treatments dispensed by the Specialized Pharmaceutical Assistance Component (CEAF) throughout 2020. The migration was successful, increasing from 29 specialized dispensing centers to 61 DMUs, which are the pharmacies of the strategic component, making dispensing more agile than the previous wait. Despite the negative effects caused by the pandemic, it can be considered that there was a great advance in the public policy of assistance to viral hepatitis.