Toward the sustainability of health interventions implemented in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and conceptual framework.

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Published in Implement Sci on March 23, 2016

Authors

Juliet Iwelunmor1, Sarah Blackstone2, Dorice Veira3, Ucheoma Nwaozuru2, Collins Airhihenbuwa4, Davison Munodawafa5, Ezekiel Kalipeni2,6, Antar Jutal7, Donna Shelley3, Gbenga Ogedegebe3

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, College of Applied Health Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA. jiwez@illinois.edu.
2: Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, College of Applied Health Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA.
3: School of Medicine, New York University, New York, NY, USA.
4: Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MO, USA.
5: World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa, Brazzaville, Congo.
6: Department of Geography, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Il, USA.
7: West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA.

Associated clinical trials:

Building and Sustaining Interventions for Children: Task-sharing Mental Health Care in Low-resource Settings (BASIC) | NCT03243396

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