Global health and moral values
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منابع مشابه
Global health and moral values.
Soon after assuming office on July 21, 2003, the new Director-General of WHO, Jong-Wook Lee, announced plans to launch several global health initiatives: reenergising primary health care to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), launching the ambitious 3 by 5 initiative to expand access to antiretroviral drug treatment to 3 million HIV-positive people by 2005, and accelerating country...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Lancet
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0140-6736
DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(04)17063-3