Barriers to the effective treatment and prevention of malaria in Africa: A systematic review of qualitative studies.

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Published in BMC Int Health Hum Rights on October 25, 2009

Authors

David M Maslove1, Anisa Mnyusiwalla, Edward J Mills, Jessie McGowan, Amir Attaran, Kumanan Wilson

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. dmaslove@stanford.edu

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