A program in Brazil that gives a monthly cash sum to families living in poverty has an unexpected — and welcome result. A new study shows that it is dramatically reducing tuberculosis rates.

Brazil's Bolsa Família Program (BFP), one of the world's largest conditional cash transfer programs, was responsible for the reduction of more than half the number of tuberculosis cases and ...

According to the latest official data, Brazil’s prisons have nearly 1,000 cases of tuberculosis per 100,000 people detained, a rate almost 40 percent higher than in the general population.

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According to the government, Brazil alone accounts for one-third of all tuberculosis cases in the Americas, with an estimated 72,600 new cases and 4,700 deaths annually.

The Institute of Drug Technology (Farmanguinhos) of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) registered Monday (Nov. 24) a new drug against tuberculosis combining four active ingredients in one ...