AIDS - Farmanguinhos

A worker controls the production of medicaments for anti HIV treatment at Farmanguinhos laboratory in Rio's neighbourdhood of Jacarepagua, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 17, 2006. The Federal government supplies a free "cocktail" of anti-AIDS drugs to 90,000 victims, and AIDS deaths in Brazil were cut in half between 1996 and 1999. Some 540,000 Brazilians, or 0.57 percent of the population are registered as HIV-positive. ((Austral Foto/Renzo Gostoli))

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A worker controls the production of medicaments for anti HIV treatment at Farmanguinhos laboratory in Rio's neighbourdhood of Jacarepagua, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 17, 2006. The Federal government supplies a free "cocktail" of anti-AIDS drugs to 90,000 victims, and AIDS deaths in Brazil were cut in half between 1996 and 1999. Some 540,000 Brazilians, or 0.57 percent of the population are registered as HIV-positive. ((Austral Foto/Renzo Gostoli))

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