Brazil's Bolsa Família Program (BFP), one of the world's largest conditional cash transfer programs, was responsible for the ...

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 gives a monthly cash sum to families living in poverty has an unexpected — and welcome result. A new ...

Brazil's Bolsa Família Program (BFP), one of the world's largest conditional cash transfer programmes, was responsible for the reduction of more than half the number of tuberculosis cases and deaths ...

Researchers said the findings underscore the close link between poverty and tuberculosis, which sickens more than 10 million ...

A government programme to give cash to low-income people in Brazil significantly reduced their risk of tuberculosis (TB), the world’s deadliest infectious disease, a major new study has found.

“People who have poor nutrition – it increases the risk very, very substantially for progression to tuberculosis,” says Richterman. Again, Scaff says, poor people in Brazil often don’t ...