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Health service providers in Somalia: their readiness to provide malaria case-management

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Background: Studies have highlighted the inadequacies of the public health sector in sub-Saharan African countries in providing appropriate malaria case management. The readiness of the public health sector to provide malaria case-management in Somalia, a country where there has been no functioning central government for almost two decades, was investigated. Methods: Three districts were purposively sampled in each of the two self-declared states of Puntland and Somaliland and the south-centr...

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Peer reviewed

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10.1186/1475-2875-8-100

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Institution:
University of Oxford
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MSD
Department:
NDM
Sub department:
Tropical Medicine
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Institution:
University College London
Department:
Centre for International Health and Development Institute of Child Health
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Institution:
The Clinton Foundation, Nairobi, Kenya
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
Department:
NDM
Sub department:
Tropical Medicine
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Noor, A
Snow, R
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Publisher:
BioMed Central Publisher's website
Journal:
Malaria Journal Journal website
Volume:
8
Article number:
100
Publication date:
2009-05-01
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1475-2875
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English
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Deposit date:
2010-06-09

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