RIO DE JANEIRO -- On a steep hillside, an organization is generously maintaining the local soccer field, donating cash to help operate day-care centers, providing cheap transit, staging musical ...

Brazil's president issues a license allowing the country to purchase a generic version of an AIDS drug, despite a U.S. company's patent. Thailand has taken similar steps. Both countries say they're ...

A fugitive wanted for international drug trafficking is among three accused drug dealers from Brazil who were arrested on Martha’s Vineyard, including a man charged with illegally having a large ...

On a recent Saturday a woman from Brazil was planning to board a plane at the airport in São Paulo and fly to South Africa. Instead, police flagged and searched her, found 3kg of cocaine attached to ...

BRASILIA (Reuters) -The leader of Brazilian organized crime syndicate PCC has been jailed in a maximum-security prison in Brasilia after his arrest in Bolivia over the weekend, officials in Brazil ...

The country’s Supreme Court voted to remove criminal penalties for possession of up to 40 grams of marijuana. By Jack Nicas and Ana Ionova Reporting from Rio de Janeiro Brazil decriminalized marijuana ...

Aliso Viejo-based Valeant Pharmaceuticals International has struck a deal to acquire its second Brazilian drug maker in as many months. Valeant said it is paying $56 million for an undisclosed maker ...

High levels of the drug were found in 13 Brazilian sharpnose sharks, according to new, first-of-its-kind research Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

(Adds comment from US Trade Representative's office) By Ricardo Amaral BRASILIA, May 4 (Reuters) - President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday authorized Brazil to break the patent on an AIDS drug ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – Business was brisk in the Mandela shantytown on a recent night. In the glow of a weak light bulb, customers pawed through packets of powdered cocaine and marijuana priced at $5, ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, April 25 (Reuters) - Brazil took the first step toward breaking an AIDS drug patent held by Merck & Co. <MRK.N> on Wednesday when the Health Ministry decreed the drug was in the ...

In Brazil, where more than 488,000 people have already died due to COVID-19 — second only to the United States — pseudoscience has become government policy. Bolsonaro regularly promotes repurposing ...