Rio - A series of practical results are beginning to take shape following the Bangkok international conference on AIDS last month. Brazil is at the center of some of those events. At the request of Doctors without Borders, the laboratory Far-Manguinhos, of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, is developing a three-in-one AIDS drug (it will be a single pill with three antiretrovirais).

Far-Manguinhos is also studying the possible of drugs made especially for children with AIDS. Their pills would be smaller and liquids would have agreeable flavors.

Núbia Boechat, the director of the laboratory, says the three-in-one pill and children's drugs should be ready by the end of this year. She points out that they will make medication easier for patients.

Yesterday president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva inaugurated a Public Health School at Oswaldo
Cruz which will officially become a part of the World Health Organization network of collaborating institutions.

Agência Brasil
Reporter: Cristina Indio do Brasil
Translator: Allen Bennett
08/06/2004