Halfdan Mahler, Who Shifted W.H.O.’s Focus to Primary Care, Dies at 93

Thursday, December 15, 2016 - 15:01 in Health & Medicine

The director general of the World Health Organization from 1973 to 1988, Dr. Mahler acknowledged the group’s slowness in responding to AIDS.

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