Health facility-based data on women receiving sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine during pregnancy in Tanzania: lessons to learn from a cross-sectional survey in Mkuranga and Mufindi districts and other national survey reports.

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Published in Reprod Health on January 16, 2014

Authors

Godfrey M Mubyazi1, Jens Byskov, Pascal Magnussen, Ib C Bygbjerg, Jasper N Ijumba, Mufungo Marero, Leonard Eg Mboera, Fabrizio Molteni, Paul Bloch

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Health Systems & Policy Research & Centre for Enhancement of Effective Malaria Interventions (CEEMI), National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR) - Headquarters, 2448 Ocean Road, P,O, Box 9653, Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania. gmmubyazi@gmail.com.

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