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New program in Brazil offers Botox for low-income beauty-seekers
Mon Nov 10, 3:26 PM
By The Associated Press
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Want Botox but don't have the bucks?
Not a problem in beauty-obsessed Rio de Janeiro - at least if you don't mind a trainee doing the work.
The Brazilian Society of Esthetic Medicine is offering free Botox injections and several other beauty treatments to those earning less than $250 a month.
Spokeswoman Isabel Alvarez says the program lets student doctors get experience and gives the poor a chance for luxury treatments they couldn't normally afford.
Also offered are laser hair or acne removal, chemical skin peels, treatment of varicose veins and nutritional counselling.
Alvarez says the program has operated sporadically since 1998 and has treated some 10,000 people.
This year's 10-day program started Monday.
