WHO and the future of disease control programmes.

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Published in Lancet on February 02, 2013

Authors

Christopher Dye1, Thierry Mertens, Gottfried Hirnschall, Winnie Mpanju-Shumbusho, Robert D Newman, Mario C Raviglione, Lorenzo Savioli, Hiroki Nakatani

Author Affiliations

1: HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Malaria & Neglected Tropical Diseases Cluster, World Health Organization, CH-1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland. dyec@who.int

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