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Global health training is not only a developed-country duty

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  1. Unit of Epidemiology, HIV/STI Unit, School of Public Health, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Avenida Honorio Delgado 430, San Martin de Porres, Lima, 31, Peru

    Patricia J Garcia, Walter H Curioso & Marcela Lazo-Escalante

  2. Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

    Robert H Gilman

  3. Instituto de Medicina Tropical ‘Alexander von Humboldt’ Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Avenida Honorio Delgado 430, San Martin de Porres, Lima, 31, Peru

    Eduardo Gotuzzo

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Garcia, P., Curioso, W., Lazo-Escalante, M. et al. Global health training is not only a developed-country duty. J Public Health Pol 30, 250–252 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1057/jphp.2009.6

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