Under the newly expanded birth control program, the country's Health Minister Jose Gomes Temporao announced the new development just a month after President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said the government would provide cheap birth control pills at 10,000 drug stores across Brazil.
Brazil sees the morning-after pill as an important tool for the prevention of unwanted pregnancies and to help Brazil's poor have the same access to birth control as its rich.
As part of an anti-AIDS program, Latin America's largest country already distributes 254 million free condoms a year and has handed out the morning-after pill and regular contraceptives at government pharmacies for years.
Under the newly expanded program, regular contraceptives will be offered at commercial drug stores for sale at just $2.40 for a year's supply. It is still not clear if the morning-after-pills will be subsidized or available free of cost.
Morning-after pills have high doses of the same drugs found in many regular birth-control pills, and can lower the risk of pregnancy by up to 89 percent if taken within 72 hours of unprotected sex.
Abortions are the fourth leading cause of maternal death in Brazil after hypertension, hemorrhages and infections. There are an estimated 800,000 illegal abortions in Brazil each year, and about 4,000 women die from such procedures annually.
