Costs and Cost-Effectiveness of a Mobile Phone Text-Message Reminder Programmes to Improve Health Workers' Adherence to Malaria Guidelines in Kenya

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Dejan Zurovac1,2,3, Bruce A. Larson1, Raymond Sudoi3, Robert W. Snow2,3
1Center for Global Health and Development, Department of International Health, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
2Centre for Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
3Malaria Public Health Cluster, KEMRI-Wellcome Trust–University of Oxford Collaborative Programme, Nairobi, Kenya

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