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Doctors Group Helps Spread AIDS Strategy

From U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

September 13, 2001

Doctors Without Borders said today that it was working with Brazil to export the country's successful AIDS program and its locally made AIDS drugs to other developing countries. The president of the organization, Bernard Pecoul, said he and Brazil's health minister, Jose Serra, had signed a letter of intent as the first step toward recreating the program in Africa, Asia, and other parts of Latin America. Brazil's AIDS program has become a model for developing countries around the world. In absolute terms, Brazil has a high number of registered AIDS cases, at 210,000, but it has managed, with aggressive prevention education, to keep HIV infection to less than 1 percent of the population.


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09.13.01; Reuters

  
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