Scaling up impact of malaria control programmes: A tale of events in Sub-Saharan Africa and People's Republic of China

Infectious Diseases of Poverty

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-15

  Tambo, Ernest ^a,b   Adedeji, Ahmed A ^c   Huang, Fang ^a   Chen, Jun Hu ^a   Zhou, Shui Sen ^a   Tang, Ling Hua ^a  

^a CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^b School of Medicine and Pharmacy Houdegbe North American University PK10 Route de Porto Novo   (Benin)

^c KAMPALA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

Author keywords

Funding; Health system; Interventions; Malaria; People's republic of china; Scaling up; Sub sahara africa

Indexed keywords

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; CHINA; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE ELIMINATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALARIA CONTROL; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; REVIEW; SCALE UP;

EID: 84885376260     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20499957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2049-9957-1-7     Document Type: Review

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