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Carissa F. Etienne: Health inequities endanger economic and social growth in Latin America and the Caribbean

Health inequities are “not only unjust, they also threaten the advances we have made in the last decades and endanger economic growth and social development” in Latin America and the Caribbean, said PAHO Director Carissa F. Etienne during the High Level Meeting for Every Woman, Every Child, Every Adolescent, which concluded in Santiago on 4 July.

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