وتستند استراتيجية الحكومة، من جهة، إلى قرارها بتشجيع التصنيع المحلي لمضادات فيروس النسخ العكسي؛ وبحلول عام 2001، كان ما نسبته 63 في المائة من هذه المضادات يُصنع محليا.
Free and universal access to antiretrovirals in the public health service, legally guaranteed by the Government of Brazil since 1996, has heightened the economic accessibility of these essential medicines, resulting in increasing numbers receiving treatment and a reduction in mortality in some areas.16 The Government's strategy rests, on the one hand, on its decision to encourage domestic manufacture of antiretrovirals: by 2001, 63 per cent were manufactured domestically.