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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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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Reproductive Health Matters
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0968-8080,1460-9576
DOI: 10.1016/s0968-8080(05)25162-5