MDGs and NTDs: Reshaping the Global Health Agenda

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Smith, James ^a,b   Taylor, Emma Michelle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; GOAL ATTAINMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; MALARIA; NEGLECTED DISEASE; NON COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; POVERTY; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; TROPICAL DISEASE; TUBERCULOSIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; HEALTH POLICY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; NEGLECTED DISEASES; TROPICAL MEDICINE; UNITED NATIONS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84892729281     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002529     Document Type: Article

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