The primary foundations of the origin and support to BIREME’s existence are the following

• the access to scientific and technical health information is essential for the development health research, education and care systems.
  
  
• the need of technical cooperation to develop Latin American and Caribbean regional and national capacities and infrastructures on health scientific and technical information according to the international state of art;
  
  
• the need to increase in a sustainable way the visibility, accessibility, dissemination, use and impact of scientific information generated at national, regional and global levels.