Implementation of the Affordable Medicines for Malaria Facility (AMFm) in Ghana: Processes, challenges and achievements

Journal of Public Health Policy

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 302-314

  Malm, Keziah L ^a   Segbaya, Sylvester ^b   Forson, Ivy ^a   Gakpey, Kwame D ^a   Sampong, Lily Boatemaa ^a   Adjei, Eunice Achiaa ^a   Bart Plange, Constance ^a  

^a GHANA HEALTH SERVICE   (Ghana)

^b AngloGold Ashanti Limited   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Affordable Medicines Facility Malaria (AMFm); Drug procurement; Ghana; Malaria; Malaria programme implementation

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ARTEMISININ; ARTEMISININ DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; COOPERATION; DRUG COMBINATION; ECONOMICS; GHANA; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MALARIA; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT;

ANTIMALARIALS; ARTEMISININS; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; GHANA; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MALARIA; PRIVATE SECTOR; PUBLIC SECTOR;

EID: 84877282836     PISSN: 01975897     EISSN: 1745655X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jphp.2013.12     Document Type: Article

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