Department of Error (DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(06)68545-0);The World Bank: false financial and statistical accounts and medical malpractice in malaria treatment

Lancet

Volumn 368, Issue 9531, 2006, Pages 247-252

  Attaran, Amir ^a   Barnes, Karen I ^b   Bate, Roger ^c   Binka, Fred ^d   d'Alessandro, Umberto ^e   Fanello, Caterina I ^f   Garrett, Laurie ^g   Mutabingwa, Theonest K ^h   Roberts, Donald ⁱ   Sibley, Carol Hopkins ^j   Talisuna, Ambrose ^h   Van geertruyden, Jean Pierre ^e   Watkins, William M ^k  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

^e INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^f LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^g Council on Foreign Relations ^*  (United States)

^h East African Network for Monitoring Antimalarial Treatment   (Tanzania)

ⁱ UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTEMISIN; CHLOROQUINE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; DEATH; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MALPRACTICE; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT FAILURE; TUBERCULOSIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 33744535159     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(06)69040-5     Document Type: Erratum

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