Rabies control: Could innovative financing break the deadlock?

Frontiers in Veterinary Science

Volumn 4, Issue MAR, 2017, Pages

  Welburn, Susan C ^a   Coleman, Paul G ^b,c   Zinsstag, Jakob ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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

^c H2O Venture Partners   (United Kingdom)

^d SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Development impact bonds; Disease control; Finance; Neglected tropical diseases; Rabies; Zoonotic

Indexed keywords

EID: 85037843607     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22971769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fvets.2017.00032     Document Type: Short Survey

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