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Health care waste management in community-based care: experiences of community health workers in low resource communities in South Africa

BACKGROUND: In South Africa, community health workers (CHWs) working in community-based care (CBC) programmes provide care to patients most of whom are living with HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis (TB). Although studies have shown that the caregiving activities provided by the CHWs generate health care was...

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Autores principales:	Hangulu, Lydia, Akintola, Olagoke
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2017
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5432984/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28506258 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-017-4378-5

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