Communicable disease control in Afghanistan

Global Public Health

Volumn 9, Issue SUPPL.1, 2014, Pages

  Ikram, Mohammad S ^a   Powell, Clydette L ^b   Bano, Rashida A ^c   Quddus, Arshad D ^c   Shah, Syad K ^c   Ogden, Ellyn L ^d   Butt, Waqar R ^c   Moideen, Mohd Arshil ^e  

^a Office of Social Sector USAID Afghanistan   (Afghanistan)

^b Bureau for Global Health   (United States)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^d Worldwide Polio Eradication USAID Washington   (United States)

^e Malaysian Armed Forces Health Services Division   (Afghanistan)

Author keywords

malaria; pneumonia; polio; surveillance; tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AFGHANISTAN; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; COMMUNITY BASED DIRECTLY OBSERVED THERAPY SHORT COURSE; DISEASE EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MALARIA; POLIOMYELITIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP; RISK FACTOR; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; TUBERCULOSIS; URBAN AREA; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; MALE; PNEUMONIA; STANDARDS;

AFGHANISTAN; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALARIA; MALE; PNEUMONIA; POLIOMYELITIS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84904467147     PISSN: 17441692     EISSN: 17441706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2013.826708     Document Type: Article

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