Brazil's example on AIDS
Brazil has proven wrong the conventional wisdom that AIDS drugs are unaffordable in poor lands and that these countries lack the infrastructure to provide the drugs and train patients in their use.
Brazil has proven wrong the conventional wisdom that AIDS drugs are unaffordable in poor lands and that these countries lack the infrastructure to provide the drugs and train patients in their use.
Altering a long-held policy, US health officials are now recommending that treatment for the AIDS virus be delayed as long as possible for people without symptoms because of increased concerns over
Two-and-a-half years after the world's first hand transplant, British surgeons have amputated the hand because the patient failed to follow the correct treatment. Clint Hallam's tranplanted hand was
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