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Primary health care facilities capacity gaps regarding diagnosis, treatment and knowledge of schistosomiasis among healthcare workers in North-western Tanzania: a call to strengthen the horizontal system

BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization (WHO) calls for schistosomiasis endemic countries to integrate schistosomiasis control measures into the primary health care (PHC) services; however, in Tanzania, little is known about the capacity of the primary health care system to assume this role. The o...

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Autores principales:	Mazigo, Humphrey Deogratias, Uisso, Cecilia, Kazyoba, Paul, Mwingira, Upendo J.
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2021
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8165992/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34053433 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-021-06531-z

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