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Review
. 2017 Jun;7(1):010309.
doi: 10.7189/jogh.07.010309.

Reducing maternal mortality in sub-Saharan Africa: the role of ethical consumerism

Dileep Wijeratne  1 , Andrew David Weeks  2
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Review

Reducing maternal mortality in sub-Saharan Africa: the role of ethical consumerism

Dileep Wijeratne et al. J Glob Health. 2017 Jun.
No abstract available

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Competing interests: The authors have completed the Unified Competing Interest form at www.icmje.org/coi_disclosure.pdf (available on request from the corresponding author) and declare no conflict of interest. The authors are in no way affiliated with the organisations listed in the article.

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Photo: Child labor: artisan mining in Kailo, DR Congo. By Julien Harneis (Flickr: Mining in Kailo) [CC BY–SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons.
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