Doing better for women and children in armed conflict settings

Zulfiqar A Bhutta1, Michelle F Gaffey2, Paul B Spiegel3

  • 1Centre for Global Child Health, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, M5G 0A4, Canada; Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health and Institute for Global Health and Development, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan; Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA; Institute for International Programs, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.

Lancet (London, England)
|January 27, 2021
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