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 ...

What if the best medicine isn't a pill or vaccine — but it's cold cash? The study is impressive in its scale. Researchers combined two Brazilian datasets — one from the Ministry of Health and one that ...

The study is impressive in its scale. Researchers combined two Brazilian datasets — one from the Ministry of Health and one that tracks social programs for the poorest half of the population — ...

A program in Brazil that gives a monthly cash sum to families living in poverty has an unexpected — and welcome result. A new study shows that... Tuberculosis rates plunge when families living in ...

What if the best medicine isn't a pill or vaccine — but it's cold cash? There's a growing body of research that suggests economic programs that give money to very poor people can have major health ...