Free formula milk in the prevention of mother-to-child transmission programme: voices of a peri-urban community in South Africa on policy change.

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Published in Health Policy Plan on November 11, 2012

Authors

Petrida Ijumba1, Tanya Doherty, Debra Jackson, Mark Tomlinson, David Sanders, Lars-Åke Persson

Author Affiliations

1: Health Systems Research Unit, Medical Research Council, 460 Ridge Road, PO Box 70380, Overport 4067, South Africa. E-mail: petrida.ijumba@mrc.ac.za.

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