Brazil - Facts About STD's

Brazil's second city Rio de Janeiro has marked World AIDS Day by lighting 10 of its monuments in red, including its iconic statue of Christ the Redeemer."It's a way to remind the population that AIDS has yet to be cured and that ...

Brazil said Monday its AIDS epidemic was under control, with a 0.61 percent cut in new cases between 2009 and 2010, although a rise among young homosexuals was a cause for concern."The AIDS epidemic remains stable," the health ministry said in its ...

LONDON (Reuters) - India's Aurobindo Pharma has become the first major generic drugmaker to join a patent pool designed to make HIV/AIDS treatments more widely available to the poor, paving the way for it to sell cheap medicines in many countries.The Medicines ...

VIENNA (Reuters) - Criminal gangs are selling more cheap and easy-to-make amphetamine-type drugs, such as ecstasy and crystal meth, in new markets, and cannabis is now the only more widely used illegal drug, a United Nations report released on Tuesday said.The number ...

Lula, who hands over the reins to protege Dilma Rousseff on January 1, called the new anti-retroviral (ARV) drug factory in Mozambique a "revolution" for Africa's efforts to control the disease."The fact that we are building the African continent's first factory to ...

You've got mail _ and possibly an STD: Brazil creates e-cards to inform partners of infectionYou've got mail and possibly an STD. The Brazilian Health Ministry has created a Web site to let people inform partners they've got a sexually transmitted disease ...

The sources cited within this issue are presented including " Revised Estimates," "The Emergence of HIV/AIDS in the Americas and Beyond," by M. Thomas P. Gilbert. Andrew Rambaut, Gabriela Wlasiuk, Thomas J. Spira, Arthur E. Pitchenik, and Michael Worobey, and "The Lessons ...

), was an outspoken champion of the poor and was nominated in 1994 for the Nobel Prize for Peace for his efforts to improve their living standards and to combat hunger. A 1964 military coup in Brazil drove him into exile, first ...

The article introduces a series of articles about the state of HIV/AIDS in Latin America. The topics of the articles include the success of Brazil in asserting their right to produce generic drugs against HIV, the civic organizations in Brazil, and the ...

A Brazilian-funded factory for producing anti-retroviral drugs, the first in Mozambique, will begin selling the key HIV medication by year's end, officials said Tuesday.The project aims to help Mozambique, with one of the world's highest HIV infection rates, increase the availability and ...

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Topic: Brazil

Brazilian city lights up in red for World AIDS Day

Brazil says it has AIDS under control

Aurobindo uses patent pool for generic AIDS drugs

Amphetamine-type drugs more common than cannabis: U.N.

Brazil's Lula visits anti-retroviral plant in Mozambique

In Brazil, you've got mail _ and possibly an STD

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A Cautious Hope HIVAIDS in Latin America

Mozambique factory to sell HIV drugs by December: officials

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