Scaling up antiretroviral therapy in Uganda: using supply chain management to appraise health systems strengthening.

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Published in Global Health on August 01, 2011

Authors

Ricarda Windisch1, Peter Waiswa, Florian Neuhann, Florian Scheibe, Don de Savigny

Author Affiliations

1: Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel (P,O, Box 4002), Switzerland. ricarda.windisch@unibas.ch.

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