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In a move to further advance efforts
to eradicate HIV/AIDS, Brazilian health officials have announced that doctors
will now be required to notify authorities of every HIV case in the country.
Previously, health care providers
were only required to notify state and federal officials when patients
developed AIDS. All patients diagnosed with AIDS are eligible to receive free
drug treatment, a program that currently treats 223,000 individuals and costs
the nation approximately $700 million per year.
Health officials estimate there may
be another 250,000 individuals infected with HIV, but they do not know for sure
since they have not tracked HIV cases until now. Approximately 241,500
individuals died of AIDS in Brazil from 1980 to 2010.
The Friends of AIDS Foundation is
dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for HIV positive individuals and
empowering people to make healthy choices to prevent the spread of the HIV
virus. To learn more about The Friends of AIDS Foundation, please visit: http://www.friendsofaids.org.
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