Explaining adherence success in sub-Saharan Africa: an ethnographic study.

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Published in PLoS Med on January 27, 2009

Authors

Norma C Ware1, John Idoko, Sylvia Kaaya, Irene Andia Biraro, Monique A Wyatt, Oche Agbaji, Guerino Chalamilla, David R Bangsberg

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1: Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America. norma_ware@hms.harvard.edu

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