Brazil to subsidize birth control pills
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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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Brazilian announces a major plan to improve conditions for people living in Rio's violence-hit slums.
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The government on Tuesday said it will resume its program to provide free "morning-after" contraceptives to girls as young as 14, but will also offer them advice by specialists.
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TORONTO - The manufacturer of an injectable contraceptive is warning teenagers and young women that the drug could permanently weaken bones.
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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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Drug company Pfizer is assuring patients there will be plenty of information about the possible side effects of a contraceptive. The injectable drug Depo-Provera has the potential to decrease women&#39;s bone mineral density, which may lead to osteoporosis.
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Pupils at a city middle school will be able to get birth control pills and patches at their student health center after the local school board approved the proposal Wednesday evening
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - It may be known as the land  of slender supermodels, champion soccer players and itsy-bitsy  bikinis, but Brazil is increasingly fattening up like the  United States.
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Doctors and the Ontario government have agreed to try to cut the taxpayer-funded prescription drug costs of the poor and elderly by $200 million over the next four years, the Star has learned.
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Supermodel Gisele Bundchen stepped into the debate over birth control and sexual behavior in Brazil on Tuesday, saying Church opposition to condom use was ridiculous and women should have the right to choose on abortion.
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Young people are to be offered a much broader range of contraception in a bid to cut the high teenage pregnancy rate.
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A health body is using mobile phones to text reminders to young women to take the contraceptive pill.
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Brazil&#39;s Ministry of Foreign Relations is commemorating two World Trade Organization decisions that were favorable to Brazil. The decisions, which are now official, concerned EU and US subsidies on sugar and cotton, repectively.
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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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MONDAY, Feb. 7 (HealthDay News) -- The bone loss experienced by teenagers who use Depo-Provera for birth control appears to be reversible.
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The World Health Organization urged poor countries yesterday to offer deworming pills to pregnant women after a recent study in Nepal showed a 41
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Family planning groups outside of the United States would be allowed to receive contraceptives from the U.S. government under a Democratic plan moving through the U.S. House of Representatives that could prompt a veto by President George W. Bush.