Exporting expertise
Brazil is going global with its highly potent anti-aids programme. It will share its know-how in combating the disease with other countries. That the nation has succeeded in cutting its aids-related deaths by half over the past eight years is a measure of the campaign's success.
Recently, leaders from Portuguese-speaking countries signed a pact with Brazil in this regard. It has also received formal requests for help from 20 African and Caribbean countries. The director of Brazil's sexually transmitted diseases (std) / aids programme, Paulo Teixeira, has said that Brazil would pledge us $1 million