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Keeping community health workers in Uganda motivated: key challenges, facilitators, and preferred program inputs

Aurélie Brunie, Patricia Wamala-Mucheri, Conrad Otterness, Angela Akol, Mario Chen, Leonard Bufumbo and Mark Weaver
Global Health: Science and Practice February 2014, 2(1):103-116; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-13-00140
Aurélie Brunie
aFHI 360, Washington, DC, USA
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Patricia Wamala-Mucheri
bFHI 360, Kampala, Uganda. Now with the Clinton Health Access Initiative, Kampala, Uganda
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Conrad Otterness
cFHI 360, Durham, NC, USA. Now with Community Partners International, Mae Sot, Thailand
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Angela Akol
dFHI 360, Kampala, Uganda
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Mario Chen
eFHI 360, Durham, NC, USA
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Leonard Bufumbo
dFHI 360, Kampala, Uganda
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Mark Weaver
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vol. 2 no. 1 103-116
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-13-00140
PubMed 
25276566

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Global Health: Science and Practice
Online ISSN 
2169-575X
History 
  • Received: September 24, 2013
  • Accepted: December 17, 2013
  • Published online February 21, 2014.

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© Brunie et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly cited. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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  1. Aurélie Bruniea⇑,
  2. Patricia Wamala-Mucherib,
  3. Conrad Otternessc,
  4. Angela Akold,
  5. Mario Chene,
  6. Leonard Bufumbod,
  7. Mark Weaverf
  1. aFHI 360, Washington, DC, USA
  2. bFHI 360, Kampala, Uganda. Now with the Clinton Health Access Initiative, Kampala, Uganda
  3. cFHI 360, Durham, NC, USA. Now with Community Partners International, Mae Sot, Thailand
  4. dFHI 360, Kampala, Uganda
  5. eFHI 360, Durham, NC, USA
  6. fFHI 360, Durham, NC, USA. Now with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
  1. Correspondence to Aurélie Brunie (abrunie{at}fhi360.org).
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