Brazil has rolled out a successful and widely respected AIDS treatment program, which has relied in part on producing cheap, generic versions of antiretroviral therapy (ART) and in securing ...
Brazil Presses AIDS Drug Makers to Cut PricesBrazil's president issues a license allowing the country to purchase a generic version of an AIDS drug, despite a U.S. company's patent. Thailand has taken ...
Pharmaceutical companies are once again on the back foot in Brazil after the government indicated that it intends to challenge a patent owned by Roche, which protects its anti-AIDS drug Nelfinavir. In ...
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil -- A decade ago, health experts predicted an AIDS explosion in Latin America, striking hardest at Brazil, with its teeming population and sexual permissiveness. But the ...
(Adds comment from US Trade Representative's office) By Ricardo Amaral BRASILIA, May 4 (Reuters) - President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday authorized Brazil to break the patent on an AIDS drug ...
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Conditional cash transfers can significantly reduce AIDS incidence, mortality among Brazil's most vulnerable women
The world's largest conditional cash transfer program, the Bolsa Família Program (BFP), is associated with a substantial reduction in AIDS cases and deaths, especially among brown and black women with ...
RIO DE JANEIRO, April 25 (Reuters) - Brazil took the first step toward breaking an AIDS drug patent held by Merck & Co. <MRK.N> on Wednesday when the Health Ministry decreed the drug was in the ...
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, December 1 (UNHCR) - Refugees from a deprived area of the coastal Brazilian metropolis of Rio de Janeiro are using drama and comedy to open a debate on difficult social ...
WHO Director-General J.W. Lee asks Brazil's AIDS director to help the U.N. health agency reach a goal of treating 3 million HIV-infected patients around the world by 2005. Brazil's generic AIDS drug ...
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