Will increased funding for neglected tropical diseases really make poverty history?

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• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  The Lancet

• Publication date

  2012-03-24

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)60159-7PMID 22293367
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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