Can the deployment of community health workers for the delivery of HIV services represent an effective and sustainable response to health workforce shortages? Results of a multicountry study

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  2010

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  AIDS (London)

• Publication date

  2010-01-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1097/01.aids.0000366082.68321.d6PMID 20023439
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