Reimagining malaria: five reasons to strengthen community engagement in the lead up to malaria elimination.

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Published in Malar J on October 16, 2015

Authors

Maxine Whittaker1, Catherine Smith2

Author Affiliations

1: University of Queensland School of Public Health, Herston, QLD, Australia. m.whittaker@uq.edu.au.
2: Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore. cat.catherinesmith@gmail.com.

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