Shortening Turnaround Times for Newborn HIV Testing in Rural Tanzania: A Report from the Field
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1 BugandoMedical Centre Care and Treatment Center/Baylor College of Medicine Children’s Foundation Tanzania, Mwanza, Tanzania, 2 Department of Internal Medicine, Catholic University of Health & Allied Sciences–Bugando, Mwanza, Tanzania, 3 Center for Global Health, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America, 4 Department of Internal Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America, 5 Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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