Assessing and Strengthening African Universities' Capacity for Doctoral Programmes
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1 Disease Control Strategy Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom, 2 Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, 3 Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana, 4 Kilimanjaro Clinical Research Institute, Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, Moshi, Tanzania, 5 Department of Medical Parasitology, Dakar Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal, 6 College of Medicine, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi
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