Linking Disease Control Programmes in Rural Africa: a Pro-poor Strategy to Reach Abuja Targets and Millennium Development Goals

Overview

Journal BMJ

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2004 May 8

PMID 15130985

Citations 35

Authors

David H Molyneux

Vinand M Nantulya

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