Incorporating a Rapid-impact Package for Neglected Tropical Diseases with Programs for HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria

Overview

Journal PLoS Med

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2006 Jan 27

PMID 16435908

Citations 324

Authors

Peter J Hotez

David H Molyneux

Alan Fenwick

Eric Ottesen

Sonia Ehrlich Sachs

Jeffrey D Sachs

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