**2.3 Chile**

The best laboratories for diagnosis of PID in Chile are located in Santiago, Temuco, Valparaiso and Concepcion. Initial screening tests for PID can be performed in large hospitals, although it does not receive government financial support (Goic & Armas, 2010). As in most underdeveloped countries in Latin America, the diagnosis of PID is often performed after numerous episodes of infection and treatment, and patient referral to specialist in infectious diseases, and finally to immunology center. Patients with PID, who need IVIG, are not reimbursed by the public health system for PID, burdening the costs to patients, which makes the treatment is not performed or interrupted. Chile has a three-year residency in immunology at the University of Santiago of Chile, providing training care of adult and pediatric patients (Condino-Neto *et al.,* 2011).
