Zimbabwe: Health and human rights versus African solidarity

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Volumn 366, Issue 9490, 2005, Pages 964-966

  Singh, Jerome A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ECONOMIC ASPECT; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN RIGHTS; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED NATIONS;

EID: 24944449391     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(05)67351-5     Document Type: Note

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