Factors influencing malaria control policy-making in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.

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Published in Malar J on August 08, 2014

Authors

Clifford M Mutero1, Randall A Kramer, Christopher Paul, Adriane Lesser, Marie Lynn Miranda, Leonard E G Mboera, Rebecca Kiptui, Narcis Kabatereine, Birkinesh Ameneshewa

Author Affiliations

1: Centre for Sustainable Malaria Control and School of Health Systems and Public Health, University of Pretoria, Private Bag 323, Pretoria, 0001, South Africa. cmutero@icipe.org.

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