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Malaria and water resource development: the case of Gilgel-Gibe hydroelectric dam in Ethiopia
BACKGROUND: Ethiopia plans to increase its electricity power supply by five-fold over the next five years to fulfill the needs of its people and support the economic growth based on large hydropower dams. Building large dams for hydropower generation may increase the transmission of malaria since th...
Autores principales: | Yewhalaw, Delenasaw, Legesse, Worku, Van Bortel, Wim, Gebre-Selassie, Solomon, Kloos, Helmut, Duchateau, Luc, Speybroeck, Niko |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2009
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2649153/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19178727 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-8-21 |
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