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About RETS

Updated: 06/28/2022

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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

1st RIETS Ordinary Meeting Minutes (Portuguese - Spanish)
RIETS' Regulation (Portuguese - Spanish)
Workplan RIETS 2021-2022 (Portuguese - Spanish)
1st Virtual Meeting of RETS - Latin America Minutes
Declaration of Rio de Janeiro (4th RETS General Meeting - 2018)
4th RETS General Meeting Minutes (2018)
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)
Regional Action Plan for Latin America 2019-2022 - approved at the 4th General Meeting of RETS (11/2018)
RETS Communication Work Plan 2019-2022 - approved at the 4th General Meeting of RETS (11/2018)
Work Plan RETS 2019-2022 - approved at the 4th General Meeting of RETS (11/2018)
RETS' Regulation 2013 - approved at the 3rd General Meeting of RETS (08/11/2013)
Work Plan 2014-2017 - approved at the 3rd General Meeting of RETS (08/11/2013)
Work Plan 2010-2013 - approved at the 2nd General Meeting of RETS (11/12/2009)
Comunication Work Plan 2010-2013
RETS' Regulation 2006
Work Plan 2006-2009
Basis for a development plan for technicians in health (2006)
Maputo Action Plan of PECS-CPLP (02/2014)

RETS-CPLP

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.

Read more about RETS-CPLP and know the work that has been carried out over the last years. [+]

RETS-Unasul

The history of the Health Technical Schools Network of the Union of South American Nations (RETS-UNASUR) is directly related to the history of the South American Health Council (SHC or UNASUR-Health, as it was called originally).

In April 2009, the 1st Meeting of the SHC five Technical Groups (TGs) were created for the purposes of achieving the five major objectives of the South American Health Agenda, established in December 2008. In November 2009, in his 3rd Special Meeting, the Council published the Resolution No. 07/09, which considers a priority the establishment of networks of structuring institutions of national health systems.

The creation of RETS-UNASUR, that occurred in December 2009, during the 2nd General Meeting of the RETS, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, was ratified at the 2nd Annual Meeting of the SHC, held in Cuenca, Ecuador, on 29-30 April 2010. [+]

How to become a member of RETS?

According to Article 3 of the RETS Regulation may be members of the Network: (I) government agencies responsible for formulating educational policies of technicians in health; (II) representations of the World Health Organization (WHO); (III) educational institutions that run educational programs for technical workers in health; (IV) national educational networks of health technicians, represented by its coordinating institution; (V) organizations and international agencies, which, in some extent, are involved with the education of health technicians; (VI) corporate institutions involved in the area of technical education in health.

Teaching institutions should be directly appointed by the governing body responsible for drawing up technical education policies in the health sector at the national level or have your request for inclusion validated by that body. In this case, the Executive Secretary will consult with the Ministry regarding the inclusion of the applicant institution and shall notify the institution the final decision of the Ministry.

The other categories (I, II and IV) may request its inclusion through an official letter addressed to the Executive Secretariat.