Achieving MDG 4 in sub-Saharan Africa: what has contributed to the accelerated child mortality decline in Ghana?

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Published in PLoS One on March 21, 2011

Authors

Haruyo Nakamura1, Nayu Ikeda, Andrew Stickley, Rintaro Mori, Kenji Shibuya

Author Affiliations

1: Japan International Cooperation Agency, Tokyo, Japan. fv5h-smz@asahi-net.or.jp

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