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Microscopy quality control in MSF and science must be responsible to society, not to politics

January 26th, 2010

The international humanitarian medical aid organization Médecins Sans Frontičres /Doctors Without Borders (MSF) supports a wide network of medical laboratories in resource-constrained countries. In a Health in Action article in this week's PLoS Medicine, Derryck Klarkowski and Juan Daniel Orozco of MSF discuss how the organization has addressed the issue of maintaining quality control for laboratory testing.

Funding: The authors received no specific funding to write this paper.

Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Citation: Klarkowski DB, Orozco JD (2010) Microscopy Quality Control in Medecins Sans Frontieres Programs in Resource-Limited Settings. PLoS Med 7(1): e1000206. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000206

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