Empowering communities in combating river blindness and the role of NGOs: case studies from Cameroon, Mali, Nigeria, and Uganda
Open Access
- 10 May 2012
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Health Research Policy and Systems
- Vol. 10 (1), 16
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1478-4505-10-16
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