Brazil set to order, give away 1 billion condoms
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - Brazil will place an order for 1 billion condoms before January's end and give them away in coming years as part of its AIDS prevention program, Health Minister Agenor Alvares said on Friday.
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German sex educators plan to launch a spray-on condom tailor-made for all sizes.
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Brazil says it intends to copy patented anti-Aids drugs without permission from next year.
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Brazil announces a $51m plan to make birth control pills more affordable for the country's poor.
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Brazil's World Cup-winning soccer team is to take on the Haitian side in a "game for peace".
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Just weeks after Pope Benedict XVI denounced government-backed contraception in a visit to Brazil, the president unveiled a program Monday to provide cheap birth control pills at 10,000 drug stores across the country.
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Latin American countries have in recent years stepped up their campaign against HIV/AIDS by raising public awareness and creating a more caring society for those infected.
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AIDS-aware Ugandans, who use about  250,000 condoms a day, face a shortage of the product after the  government introduced new condom tests likely to cut supply  over the festive season, the Health Ministry on Friday.
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President Lula started the controversial program in 2003. It now reaches 11.1 million families.
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Brazil will send additional peacekeepers to help restore order in Haiti and boost the 4,000- force to 5,500, a top government official said at a summit of Latin American leaders.
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Brazil says it will crank up  uranium enrichment after getting the green light from UN nuclear inspectors.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil  - Brazil's uraniumenrichment plant in Resende will start working before the endof the year after getting a go-ahead from the United Nations'nuclear watchdog, the country's Science and Technology Ministersaid on Wednesday.
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The government of one of Brazil's Amazonian states plans to reforest areas of land cleared for pasture.
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - The United States and Brazil  predicted on Tuesday Latin America's largest country would  resolve a dispute with the U.N. nuclear watchdog over  inspections of a uranium enrichment plant.
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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's president called Tuesday for a U.N. Security Council that reflects "today's reality," ahead of a meeting with Japan, India and Germany to press for permanent seats on the powerful body.