Tracking Rural Health Facility Financial Data in Resource-Limited Settings: A Case Study from Rwanda
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Chunling Lu and colleagues describe a project for tracking health center financial data in two rural districts of Rwanda, which could be adapted for other low- or middle-income countries. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary.
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