Maternal and Child Health in South Sudan: Priorities for the Post-2015 Agenda

SAGE Open

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Mugo, Ngatho ^a,b   Zwi, Anthony B ^a   Botfield, Jessica R ^a   Steiner, Caitlyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

maternal; Millennium Development Goals; newborn and child health; official development assistance; post 2015; South Sudan; post conflict

Indexed keywords

EID: 84969692657     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21582440     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2158244015581190     Document Type: Article

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