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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Chile began supplying morning-after pills to girls as young as 14 this week under a program that has created an uproar in the politically leftist but socially conservative country, which still outlaws all abortions and only legalized divorce two years ago.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - A move to give teenagers public   access to the morning-after contraceptive pill without parental   consent has polarized Chilean society, with many saying it's a   license for kids to have more sex.
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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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The contraceptive pill may cut a woman's overall risk of cancer - but only if used for less than eight years.
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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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Viagra, the blockbuster impotence drug, will be paid for under Medicare's new prescription drug coverage, officials said on Tuesday.
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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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Implanon, a rod-shaped contraceptive implanted in the upper arm for up to three years, received federal approval, health officials said Tuesday.
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A contraceptive drug that avoids the side effects of hormonal birth control is on the horizon, say scientists.
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Catholic bishops criticized on Friday Brazil's plan to hand out millions of free condoms in the world's largest Catholic country when its famously bacchanalian Carnival begins next week.
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Brazil says it intends to copy patented anti-Aids drugs without permission from next year.
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The Bush administration has broken new ground in its &quot;faith-based&quot; initiative, this time by offering federal employees a Catholic health plan that specifically excludes payment for contraceptives
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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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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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The oral contraceptive pill may protect women from heart disease and some cancers, scientists suggest.
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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 House of Representatives that could prompt a veto by President George W. Bush.