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Brazil: good to know
- What visitors pay. Brazil's Ministry of Health says a foreign tourist with a health problem can also seek care in the urgent-care network of the public health system (SUS), including SAMU ambulances on 192 and 24-hour UPA units, and that these services are free. The page does not list any documents a tourist must show.Published by Ministério da Saúde (Brazil)· 19 Sep 2026
- PEP in this country. The Ministry of Health says PEP is offered free of charge by the SUS, must start within 72 hours of the exposure and is taken for 28 days.Published by Ministério da Saúde (Brazil)· 19 Sep 2026
Emergency number: 192
- CMS Rocha MaiaCentro Municipal de Saúde Rocha MaiaClosed · opens 07:00 today
A municipal health centre in Botafogo, the closest public option to Copacabana and Ipanema, which the city said in 2023 runs a walk-in HIV prevention clinic with PrEP every day from 7:00 to 22:00.
- CTA at Hospital Escola São Francisco de Assis (UFRJ)Centro de Testagem e Aconselhamento – HESFA/UFRJClosed · opens 07:00 today
A university-hospital testing centre near the city centre where first-time visitors queue for a ticket rather than book, with rapid and laboratory tests for HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B and C plus counselling.
- INI/Fiocruz PrEP ClinicAmbulatório de PrEP – Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas (INI/Fiocruz)Check hours with the clinicPEP (after HIV exposure): Yes
The national infectious diseases institute's public PrEP clinic says it also gives PEP after a recent sexual exposure, tests for HIV, syphilis, hepatitis, chlamydia and gonorrhoea and treats what it finds, though it is on the Fiocruz campus well outside the tourist areas.
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