Editorial: Engaging the private sector for tuberculosis control: much advocacy on a meagre evidence base
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Engaging the private sector for tuberculosis control: much advocacy on a meagre evidence base.
Advocacy on engaging the private sector in tuberculosis (TB) control is mounting. In the newly launched six-point Stop TB Strategy, WHO makes an urgent appeal to engage private care providers (WHO 2006a). Even more recently, this was supplanted by a guide on how to involve all care providers in TB control through different Public-Private Mix (PPM) approaches (WHO 2006b). At the same time the bo...
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عنوان ژورنال: Tropical Medicine & International Health
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1360-2276
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2007.01816.x