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Reaching Remote Health Workers in Malawi: Baseline Assessment of a Pilot mHealth Intervention

Nancy Vollmer Lemay Management Sciences for Health, Arlington, Virginia, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Tara Sullivan Center for Communication Programs, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Brian Jumbe Management Sciences for Health/Malawi, Lilongwe, Malawi
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Cary Peabody Perry Public Health Consultant, Ipswich, Massachusetts, USA
Pages 105-117 | Published online: 01 May 2012

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