The Need for Management Capacity to Achieve VISION 2020 in Sub-Saharan Africa

Overview

Journal PLoS Med

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2009 Dec 10

PMID 19997630

Citations 8

Authors

Susan Lewallen

Amir Bedri Kello

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