Should active recruitment of health workers from sub-Saharan Africa be viewed as a crime?

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Published in Lancet on February 23, 2008

Authors

Edward J Mills1, William A Schabas, Jimmy Volmink, Roderick Walker, Nathan Ford, Elly Katabira, Aranka Anema, Michel Joffres, Pedro Cahn, Julio Montaner

Author Affiliations

1: British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, University of British Columbia, Canada. emills@cihhrs.org

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