African leaders take action on RHD: The 4th All-Africa Workshop on Acute Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease & African Union RHD Communiqué
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Received: 4 April 2016 Accepted: 8 June 2016 c © 2016 The Author(s), licensee Magdi Yacoub Institute. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license CC BY-4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Cite this article as: Nulu S, Neely RC, Tawakol Z, Yacoub M. African leaders take action on RHD: The 4th All-Africa Workshop on Acute Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease & African Union RHD Communiqué, Global Cardiology Science and Practice 2016:12 http://dx.doi.org/10.21542/gcsp.2016.12 Conference report
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