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/ 14 November 2006
Brazil’s Minister of Health, Agenor Ãlvares, has admitted that the public health system is imbued with racism, stirring up more controversy over policies for specific treatment plans targeting Brazilians of African descent. There are clear signs of discriminatory practices, the minister said two weeks ago in Rio de Janeiro.
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/ 4 November 2006
After his landslide victory in last Sunday’s runoff election, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva promised that his first step would be to push through political reforms, and underlined that the poor would remain the top priority in his second term, which begins on January 1.