Rodrigo Pacheco: To commemorate the date, the World Health Organization chooses a different theme every year.
Rodrigo Pacheco: For 2026, the slogan is: "Together for health. Support science."
More than a slogan, that call summarizes the critical moment we live in — a moment in which misinformation, fostered above all by uncontrolled social networks, advances over matters related to health; a moment in which skepticism about vaccines resurfaces and in which the politicization of public health threatens achievements built over decades.
Rodrigo Pacheco: The response to all of this is not improvisation; it is science, it is evidence, it is public policy grounded in rigorous knowledge.
Rodrigo Pacheco: I recall a not-too-distant past, when we were facing the COVID-19 pandemic and, through the effort of this National Congress, starting with the approval of Bill No. 534 of 2021, authored by me, we were able to put this into practice.