Brazil to subsidize birth control pills
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President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva announced a new program Monday to sharply decrease unwanted pregnancies in Latin America's largest nation by subsidizing birth control pills.
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Brazil has tentatively agreed to let the U.N. atomic watchdog agency view parts of its equipment to enrich uranium - a deal that would end squabbling over access to technology that can be used to build nuclear weapons, diplomats said Wednesday.
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Drug maker Merck &amp; Co. plans to donate enough doses of its cervical cancer vaccine, Gardasil, to inoculate 1 million women in some of the world's poorest countries.
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Brazil says it intends to copy patented anti-Aids drugs without permission from next year.
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - Brazil will break patents on  some foreign AIDS drugs next year to escape the control of  multinational firms holding developing countries "hostage," the  government said on Tuesday.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - An experimental vaccine  reduced the presence of the HIV virus by at least 80 percent in  a Brazilian study of 18 infected patients released in the  journal Nature Medicine.
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As millions of revelers across Brazil prepare for Carnival festivities, the country's health ministry began on Sunday its yearly safe-sex campaign and the distribution of free condoms.
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A local school board will consider limiting student access to birth control pills and patches at a middle school's health center
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HIV-infected pregnant women in Guangzhou are expected to receive free medication in a government move to prevent mother-to-child transmission of the virus, Shenzhen Daily reported Friday.
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THE HAGUE, Jul 5 (IPS) - The use of contraceptives in poor countries needs  to be actively promoted, the Dutch minister for development  assistance has said.
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The first birth control pill designed to stop monthly periods has been approved for use in the US.
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Brazil has offered to build a $23 million pharmaceutical plant in Mozambique that will provide drugs to treat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases, Mozambique's national newspaper said on Tuesday.
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Brazil accepts an offer from Abbott Laboratories to cut the price of an anti-Aids drug by 30%.
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PRETORIA -- The World Health Organization urged poor countries yesterday to offer deworming pills to pregnant women after a recent study in Nepal showed a 41 percent drop in the deaths of infants of mothers who took the pills before giving birth.
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As millions of revelers across  Brazil prepare for Carnival festivities, the country's health  ministry began on Sunday its yearly safe-sex campaign and the  distribution of free condoms.
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Brazil will break the patents next year on between three and five foreign drugs used in the anti-AIDS cocktail central to its innovative program to fight the illness, the government said on Tuesday.
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Brazil plans to invest 10 billion  reais ($4.76 billion) over the next 10 years into biotechnology  research involving renewable energy, agriculture and rain  forest pharmaceuticals, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva  said on Thursday.