**3.1 Educational program**

The educational program (L-Project) was established to create increased awareness of general public, continuing education network on PID, promote basic and clinical research of PID and inform government officials in impact of PID on health published in Latin America. This program covers students, residents, pediatricians, nurses and officials involved in health system. It also emphasizes encouragement medical students seeking academic placement of teaching, research and clinical PID. These programs include summer school, containing cases and report on short-term programs associated with PID infection, dissemination of information by radio, television, websites, newspapers, magazines and educational material for community (Marodi & Casanova, 2009; Leiva *et al.,* 2011). This proposal directly contributes to knowledge generation and increase technological capacity of Latin America in this field. It is virtuous chain where all the researchers and the community involved propagate their knowledge acquired in other centers of reference, allowed expansion of existing lines of research in Brazil.
