Obstacles to prompt and effective malaria treatment lead to low community-coverage in two rural districts of Tanzania.

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Published in BMC Public Health on September 16, 2008

Authors

Manuel W Hetzel1, Brigit Obrist, Christian Lengeler, June J Msechu, Rose Nathan, Angel Dillip, Ahmed M Makemba, Christopher Mshana, Alexander Schulze, Hassan Mshinda

Author Affiliations

1: Dept, of Public Health and Epidemiology, Swiss Tropical Institute, PO Box, CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland. manuel.hetzel@unibas.ch

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