A consortium including scientists from the Tropical Institute at LMU University Hospital has demonstrated the effectiveness of a new antibiotic.

Brazil's Bolsa Fam lia Program, 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 deaths among ...

A program in Brazil that give a monthly cash sum to families living in poverty has an unexpected — and welcome result. A new ...

A program in Brazil that give a monthly cash sum to families living in poverty has an unexpected — and welcome result. A new ...

A program in Brazil that give a monthly cash sum to families living in poverty has an unexpected — and welcome result. A new ...

Background: Brazil remains one of the 30 countries with the highest tuberculosis (TB) and TB-HIV coinfection burden. Post-TB lung disease (PTLD) is a set of sequelae that can occur in people who have ...

In Brazil, “slavery-like conditions” include forced labor, but the term also covers debt bondage, degrading work conditions, long hours that pose a risk to workers’ health and any work that ...

A task force led by Brazilian prosecutors said it rescued 163 Chinese nationals working in “slavery-like” conditions at a construction site in northeastern Brazil, where Chinese electric ...

Ten members of a family died early Sunday when their small plane slammed into a commercial district in the city of Gramado in southern Brazil, civil defense authorities said. Officials had earlier ...

Suggestive tuberculosis samples came from 32 animals and 16 slaughterhouses ... and spatial distribution of Mycobacterium bovis in cattle in the state of Bahia, Brazil. Pesquisa veterinária Brasileira ...

A bridge connecting two states in Brazil’s northern and north-eastern regions collapsed on Dec 22 as vehicles were crossing, killing at least one person and spilling sulphuric acid into the ...