Strengthening the Free Healthcare Initiative through a pharmacy and supply chain intervention: Partners in Health's experience in rural Sierra Leone

• Main Authors: Sheriff L Bangura, BPharm (Author), Katrina Hann, MA (Author), Ameet Salvi, BSc (Author), Rebecca Kahn, BA (Author), Kerry L Dierberg, MD (Author), Joseph Gassimu, BSc (Author), Alpha Kabbah, BPharm (Author), Regan H Marsh, MD (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2017-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: To improve high maternal and under-5 mortality-among the worst globally-Sierra Leone's Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MOHS) enacted the Free Healthcare Initiative in 2010. Under this initiative, pregnant and lactating women and children aged younger than 5 years receive medical...