Cataract surgery: Ensuring equal access for boys and girls

Community Eye Health Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 70, 2009, Pages 28-29

  Bronsard, Annie ^a   Shirima, Sylvia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b Kilimanjaro Centre for Community Ophthalmology   (Tanzania)

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EID: 77950129347     PISSN: 09536833     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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