Christian, Islamic and other faith-based organisations provide extensive healthcare in the world's poorest places, but are invisible to global health researchers, according to a series of papers published this month in medical journal The Lancet.
The result is a dearth of data about the services that organisations such as Islamic Relief and the Salvation Army provide, the articles say.
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