About RETS
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The International Network for Health Technicians Education (Rede Internacional de Educação de Técnicos em Saúde - RETS) can be defined as an articulation between institutions and organizations involved in the education and qualification of technical health personnel in countries of the Americas, in Portuguese-speaking Africa and Portugal. Its mission is to strengthen national health systems, under the assumption that workers' skills have been considered a fundamental dimension to the implementation of public health policies that meet the needs of populations.
RETS, created in 1996, which Executive Secretariat is the School of Public Health of Costa Rica, worked until 2001, when it was deactivated. In September 2005, with the transfer of the Executive Secretariat to Joaquim Venâncio Polytechnic School of Health (Escola Politécnica de Saúde Joaquim Venâncio - EPSJV/Fiocruz), the Network has been reactivated and now gathers more than 100 institutions in 20 countries, besides hosting, as sub-networks, the Technical Health Schools Network of Portuguese Speaking Countries Community (Rede de Escolas Técnicas da Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa - RETS-CPLP) .[Read more]
Reference Documents
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2nd RIETS Ordinary Meeting Minute (10/2025)
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Workplan RETS-CPLP 2025-2028 (Portuguese)
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5th RETS-CPL Ordinary Meetin g Minute (06/2025) (en portugués)
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1st RIETS Ordinary Meeting Minutes (Portuguese - Spanish)
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RIETS' Regulation (Portuguese - Spanish)
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Workplan RIETS 2021-2022 (Portuguese - Spanish)
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1st Virtual Meeting of RETS - Latin America Minutes
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Declaration of Rio de Janeiro (4th RETS General Meeting - 2018)
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Work Plan RETS-CPLP 2019-2022 and Minutes 4th Ordinary Meeting of RETS-CPLP. (Portuguese) - approved at the 4th General Meeting of RETS (11/2018)
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Regional Action Plan for Latin America 2019-2022 - approved at the 4th General Meeting of RETS (11/2018)
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RETS Communication Work Plan 2019-2022 - approved at the 4th General Meeting of RETS (11/2018)
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Work Plan RETS 2019-2022 - approved at the 4th General Meeting of RETS (11/2018)
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RETS' Regulation 2013 - approved at the 3rd General Meeting of RETS (08/11/2013)
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Work Plan 2014-2017 - approved at the 3rd General Meeting of RETS (08/11/2013)
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Work Plan 2010-2013 - approved at the 2nd General Meeting of RETS (11/12/2009)
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Basis for a development plan for technicians in health (2006)
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Maputo Action Plan of PECS-CPLP (02/2014)
Established under the Pecs-CPLP, the Technical Health Schools Network of the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (RETS-CPLP) was created in Rio de Janeiro, on December 11, 2009, during the 2nd General Meeting of the RETS. Its general objetive is to strengthen the health technicians education in Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, Sao Tome and Principe and Timor Leste.
The Ibero-American Network for the Education of Health Technicians (RIETS) was created on March 4, 2021, as a sub-network of the International Network for the Education of Health Technicians (RETS), created in 1996. At the time of its creation, RIETS already had members from 12 of the 22 countries that make up the Ibero-American community.