Developing family medicine in Zambia
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Read online: Scan this QR code with your smart phone or mobile device to read online. Zambia is classified as a low-income country and has a population of 13.2 million people, of whom 51% reside in rural areas.1 There is a double burden of disease and, whilst the country still grapples with communicable diseases such as HIV and/or AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, there is a growing problem of non-communicable diseases.2
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Affiliations: 1 Pendleton Family Practice, P.O. Box 38049, Lusaka, Zambia. 2 Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University Teaching Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia. 3 Instituto de Investigación Hospital Universitario de la Princesa (IISP), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain. 4 Hospital Clinic, IDIBAPS, CIBERES, Universitat de Barcelona, Bar...
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