 Lula, Brazil’s president |
Brazil on Friday imposed a temporary ban on all flu medicine advertisements in an effort to reduce self-medication that may disguise A/H1N1 symptoms.
The ban applies to advertisements for aspirin-based medicine and over-the-counter remedies for flu symptoms on all mass media, including the Internet, said the National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa).
Very little coverage of this story here in Brazil. The government is also giving tax breaks to local newspapers, so I guess we can’t expect any critics.
I don’t think that has been proven, Pedro.
I don’t normally agree with “censorship”, even though this is not censorship per se. But in Brazil self medication is a big problem imo.
This is not the right way to address this issue, but I suppose this will actually work.
#4, two things:
1. Non-intervention does not mean support.
2. Can I have some links?
#1 and #2
Brazillian government has a clearly inclination towards morons with 18th century ideias… Like Chaves….