RIO DE JANEIRO: In beauty-obsessed Brazil, even the poor won't gave to go without their Botox. The Brazilian Society of Aesthetic Medicine is offering free Botox injections to those earning less than $250 (Rs 12,343) a month.

The only catch trainees will do the work.

Spokeswoman Isabel Alvarez says the programme, which will last for 10 days,  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 programme has operated sporadically since 1998 and has treated some 10,000 people.