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Brazil Refuses $40M in U.S. AIDS Grants

Brazilian officials last week said that the country has refused $40 million in U.S. AIDS grants because of a Bush administration requirement that HIV/AIDS organizations seeking funding to provide services in other countries must pledge to oppose commercial sex work,

Brazil to Strip Patent on AIDS Drug

Jose Serra said Wednesday he would use a clause in Brazil's 1997 intellectual property law that allows patents to be broken in cases of national emergency or when companies employ abusive pricing policies.

Brazil Wages War on Hepatitis C Drug Pricing

Brazil's Health Ministry, emboldened by its
successful fight for cheaper AIDS (news - web sites) medicines, is telling makers of a hepatitis C drug to slash prices or face having their patents broken.

Monitoring and Evaluation of the HIV/AIDS/STD-Brazil

The earliest cases were transmitted among men having sex with men. What followed was transmission through injecting drug use and the bridging to heterosexual partners.

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Prostitution puts U.S. and Brazil at odds on AIDS policy

But the Brazilian approach is anathema to many conservatives in the United States because it makes use of methods seen as morally objectionable. Brazil not only operates a needle and syringe exchange program for drug addicts but also rejects the Bush administration's emphasis on abstinence, being faithful and the controlled use of condoms, the so-called ABC approach, in favor of a pragmatism that recognizes that sexual desire can sometimes overwhelm reason.

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