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Albinism in Africa as a public health issue

Esther S Hong1, Hajo Zeeb2* and Michael H Repacholi2

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1 World Health Organization, Department of Protection of the Human Environment, Geneva, Switzerland and University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA, USA

2 World Health Organization, Department of Protection of the Human Environment, Geneva, Switzerland

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BMC Public Health 2006, 6:212 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-6-212

Published: 17 August 2006

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Albinism: Information Survey WHO 2005. The pilot survey was drafted in English, French and Portuguese and then distributed through the WHO Regional Offices in order to gather further insight into the problems facing people with albinism and any available epidemiological information throughout Africa.

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