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Global health estimates: stronger collaboration needed with low- and middle-income countries

Osman Sankoh. PLoS Med. 2010.

Abstract

Osman Sankoh argues for much stronger collaboration between generators of global health estimates, and individuals and organizations working at the country level, as part of a PLoS Medicine cluster of articles on global health estimates.

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Osman Sankoh is the executive director of INDEPTH Network.

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