Involving communities in the design of clinical trial protocols: the BAN Study in Lilongwe, Malawi.

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Published in Contemp Clin Trials on August 11, 2006

Authors

Amy L Corneli1, Ellen G Piwoz, Margaret E Bentley, Agnes Moses, Jacqueline R Nkhoma, Beth Carlton Tohill, Linda Adair, Beatrice Mtimuni, Yusuf Ahmed, Ann Duerr, Peter Kazembe, Charles van der Horst, UNC Project BAN Study Team

Author Affiliations

1: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. acorneli@fhi.org

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