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Comment — WHO's weakness is not technical, but due to lack of accountability
  1. David G Legge1,
  2. Claudio Schuftan2,
  3. Fran E Baum1,
  4. Remco van de Pas3,
  5. David Sanders4,
  6. Lori Hanson1,
  7. David McCoy4,
  8. Amit Sengupta1
  1. 1People's Health Movement, Cape Town, South Africa
  2. 2People's Health Movement, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
  3. 3Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium
  4. 4Cape Town, South Africa
  1. Correspondence to Dr David G Legge, People's Health Movement, Cape Town 7705, South Africa; d.legge{at}latrobe.edu.au

https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2016-000236

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