Forgetting other communicable diseases during the COVID-19 pandemic: Tuberculosis mortality in Peru.

Lancet Reg Health Am

Centro de Excelencia en Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales en Salud, Vicerrectorado de Investigación, Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola, Lima, Peru.

Published: May 2022

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