Costs of interventions for AIDS orphans and vulnerable children
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Policies for Orphans and Vulnerable Children
Acknowledgments Thanks to all who contributed ideas and comments on the paper, in particular, Don Dickerson, Norine Jewell, Kevin Osborne, and Brenda Rakama from the POLICY Project. Thanks are also due to POLICY's overseas staff who researched the situation of orphans and vulnerable children in their respective countries and completed the questionnaires that provided valuable information and in...
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عنوان ژورنال: Tropical Medicine & International Health
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1360-2276
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2011.02856.x