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Strengthening public health education in population and reproductive health through an innovative academic partnership in Africa: The Gates partners experience

Gbolahan Oni Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, The Bill and Melinda Gates Institute, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Adesegun Fatusi Department of Community Health, Faculty of Clinical Sciences, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria
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Amy Tsui Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, The Bill and Melinda Gates Institute, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Fikre Enquselassie Department of Community Health, Faculty of Medicine, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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Oladosu Ojengbede Centre for Population and Reproductive Health, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
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Tsiri Agbenyega School of Medical Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
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Ebenezer Ojofeitimi Department of Community Health, Faculty of Clinical Sciences, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria
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Frank Taulo Centre for Reproductive Health, College of Medicine, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi
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Isabella Quakyi School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana
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Pages 193-209 | Received 19 Mar 2009, Published online: 06 Jul 2010

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