Malaria scale-up progress: is the glass half-empty or half-full?

The Lancet

Volumn 373, Issue 9657, 2009, Pages 11-13

  Slutsker, Laurence ^a   Newman, Robert D ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ARTEMISIN;

ARTICLE; CONGO; MALARIA; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NIGERIA; POPULATION RISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALE UP; SUDAN;

EID: 58049170374     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61597-4     Document Type: Note

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