Has Tanzania embraced the green leaf? Results from outlet and household surveys before and after implementation of the Affordable Medicines Facility-malaria.
<h4>Background</h4>The Affordable Medicines Facility-malaria (AMFm) is primarily an artemisinin combination therapy (ACT) subsidy, aimed at increasing availability, affordability, market share and use of quality-assured ACTs (QAACTs). Mainland Tanzania was one of eight national scale pro...
Main Authors: | Rebecca Thomson, Charles Festo, Boniface Johanes, Admirabilis Kalolella, Katia Bruxvoort, Happy Nchimbi, Sarah Tougher, Matthew Cairns, Mark Taylor, Immo Kleinschmidt, Yazoume Ye, Andrea Mann, Ruilin Ren, Barbara Willey, Fred Arnold, Kara Hanson, S Patrick Kachur, Catherine Goodman |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2014-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/24816649/pdf/?tool=EBI |
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