Minister of Health Jose Gomes Temporao of Brazil
Health Minister Jose Gomes Temporao was scheduled to tour the affected areas Wednesday to meet with Santa Catarina Gov.
Rio De Janeiro, Oct 17 (Xinhua) Brazilian Health Minister Jose Gomes Temporao has formally declared a dengue epidemic.
I would say that we are losing the war against this illness,' Gomes Temporao said Tuesday.
Temporao said that Abbott "created a positive atmosphere of discussion and cooperation with the government, which allowed US to reach an agreement.
4 (Xinhua) -- Temporao said that Brazil's public hospitals are fully capable of diagnosing fetus's anencephalia, and the Brazilian law stipulates that a person without brain activity is considered dead.
Forbidding a woman to abort a fetus who is doomed to die is cruel, it is a political use of women's bodies, Temporao said during the hearing, we defend a pregnant woman's right to advance the birth.
But Jose Gomes Temporao has also won fans among social activists, pro-abortion groups and.
But Jose Gomes Temporao has also won fans among social activists, pro-abortion groups and Brazil's poor.
The outspoken Temporao has emerged as the most contentious member of President Luiz Inacio Lula's government since he took office in March -- even taking on Pope Benedict.
DRINK AND DRUGS Now Temporao is taking on Brazil's beer industry and global pharmaceutical companies.
Temporao is now pushing forward with plans to help African nations build plants to make cheaper drugs on their own.
About 600,000 Brazilians are living with HIV/AIDS, and about 200,000 have access to antiretroviral drugs, Temporao said (AP/San Diego Union-Tribune, 1/27.
Brazil is not doing this as a threat, nor to lower the price of other medicines, but to guarantee its program of attending (AIDS) patients, Temporao said at news conference.
According to Reuters, the cost of the generic version Brazil will produce has not been determined, but Temporao said the cost would be similar to that of the generic version from India.
Temporao said that the announcement is a "historical mark for Brazil's pharmaceutical industry and Brazil's public health," adding that it "could be the basis for future innovative initiatives.
Temporao said that the health ministry wants Brazil to be "treated and seen in a strategic way" by the pharmaceutical industry.
government's homosexual rights policy.
in state university hospitals in large urban areas.
Temporao said the operations would be performed in university hospitals in the states of Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and Minas Gerias on a trial basis.
Temporao said Merck now has seven days to negotiate a lower price for efavirenz.
Temporao said the government would eventually open some 660 "hydration stations" around the state.
UpdatedFriday, January 11, 2008 0:00amTWN,APBrazil: no risk of yellow fever despite 2 deathsRIO DE JANEIRO -- Brazil faces no risk of a yellow fever epidemic, despite an outbreak that killed two people last week in the capital, Health Minister Jose Gomes Temporao said on Wednesday.
Click hereSharePrintEmailWrite a CommentEnter your comments - 1000 characters maxType in image codeSubmitReceive China Post promosRespond to this email Brazil faces no risk of a yellow fever epidemic, despite an outbreak that killed two people last week in the capital, Health Minister Jose Gomes Temporao said on Wednesday.
This year 121 people have already died,' Gomes Temporao said Tuesday while launching a new national campaign to combat the disease in the city of Belo Horizonte.
Gomes Temporao said the move is in accordance with the governments homosexual rights policy.
Gomes Temporao said the surgery will initially be performed only in state university hospitals in large urban areas.
Jose Gomes Temporao said Wednesday the decision to produce efavirenz, a generic version of Stocrin, was taken because Merck refused to reduce its price.