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How we can to reduce the cost of Africa’s health care delivery

By CNBC
18 February 2019   |   5:22 am
Nigeria's former Finance Minister and Board chair of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisations Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala says economically, for every dollar invested in health, you get twenty dollars in return.

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