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Drug donations: what lies beneath.
a Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Porto Medical School, Porto, Portugal. Correspondence to Cristina P Pinheiro (e-mail: [email protected]). doi:10.2471/BLT.07.048546 Drug donations are necessary and valued when they accurately meet the recipient’s needs. However, the lack of international regulation on drug donation procedures allows some entities to take an unfair...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.314.7082.737