20 years of the ICRC Code of Conduct for Disaster Relief: what do we need to improve?

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Medical Genetics Centre Doutor Jacinto Magalhăes, Centro Hospitalar do Porto, and Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Portugal.

Published: April 2015

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