Tag: aids

19 LatAm Countries Discuss in Brazil How to Get AIDS Drugs to All

Representatives of 19 Latin American countries got together today, in BrasÀ­lia, with the objective ...

Researchers in Brazil Get US$ 2.1 Million to Study AIDS and STDs

Beginning this month, researchers from all over Brazil will begin to receive funding from ...

NGO’s File Suit to Force Brazil to Break AIDS Drug Patent

Brazil’s Ministry of Health estimates that 600,000 Brazilians are carriers of the HIV virus. ...

Brazil Targets Blacks and Women in New AIDS Campaign

The Brazilian government started yesterday, World AIDS Day, an awareness campaign among Brazilians that ...

In Brazil, AIDS Kills More Blacks than Whites

The campaign, Together with Children and Adolescents – Together We Shall Overcome AIDS! – ...

Brazil Vows to Eliminate AIDS in Newborns

Brazil pledged on Tuesday to reduce the rate at which HIV positive mothers transmit ...

40% of Young Brazilians Don’t Know How AIDS Is Transmitted

600 thousand of Latin America’s total of 1.8 million HIV carriers live in Brazil, ...

Abbott Blinks First and Brazil Gets Its AIDS-Drug Discount

Some 23,000 people in Brazil use the AIDS drug, Kaletra, made by the Abbott ...

Brazil Close to a Deal on AIDS Drug with Abbott

Brazil continues to negotiate AIDS drug prices with multinational pharmaceutical laboratories. At the moment, ...

NGOs Urge Brazil to Speed Up Process of Breaking AIDS Drugs Patent

In order to alleviate budgetary problems in Brazil’s AIDS program  some 700 activists are ...