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Brazil To Become World Supplier Of Chagas Disease Treatment
"Brazil is keen to take part in the international effort to expand access to medicines and to produce its own drugs, and will start by becoming the world supplier of medicines to treat Chagas disease," Health Minister Alexandre Padilha announced "at the World Conference on Social Determinants of Health, which opened Tuesday October 19 in Rio de Janeiro," Inter Press Service reports. "Production of benznidazole, the drug in question, will reach 3.4 million tablets by the end of this year," the news service writes.
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