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Bring order to unregulated health markets

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Uncontrolled medical treatment in Asia and Africa costs lives and money. David Peters and Gerald Bloom call for governments, firms and citizen groups to get involved.

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  1. Department of International Health, David H. Peters is director of the Health Systems Program, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA.,

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  2. Gerald Bloom is a fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9RE, UK.,

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Peters, D., Bloom, G. Bring order to unregulated health markets. Nature 487, 163–165 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/487163a

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