Frontline health workers as brokers: provider perceptions, experiences and mitigating strategies to improve access to essential medicines in South Africa.

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Published in BMC Health Serv Res on November 05, 2014

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Bvudzai Priscilla Magadzire, Ashwin Budden, Kim Ward, Roger Jeffery, David Sanders

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