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Brazil, Cuba to provide free sex-change surgery

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Havana : Cuba | about 1 year ago  
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    Brazil, Cuba to provide a free sex-change surgery
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    Brazil, Cuba to provide a free sex-change surgery
Brazil, Cuba to provide a free sex-change surgery

Brazilian and Cuban authorities are to provide free sex-change operations as part of their healthcare plans.

In Brazil, the Federal Medicine Council has approved sex-change operations since the late 1990s, but the procedure could only be conducted in the private healthcare system at a very high cost. The government will now begin paying for the operations, local media reported Friday, citing President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Health Minister Jose Gomes Temporao.

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