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A Mobile-Based Community Health Management Information System for Community Health Workers and Their Supervisors in 2 Districts of Zambia

Godfrey Biemba, Boniface Chiluba, Kojo Yeboah-Antwi, Vichaels Silavwe, Karsten Lunze, Rodgers K Mwale, Scott Russpatrick and Davidson H Hamer
Global Health: Science and Practice September 2017, 5(3):486-494; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-16-00275
Godfrey Biemba
aZambian Centre for Applied Health Research and Development Limited, Lusaka, Zambia.
bCenter for Global Health and Development and Department of Global Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
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Boniface Chiluba
aZambian Centre for Applied Health Research and Development Limited, Lusaka, Zambia.
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Kojo Yeboah-Antwi
bCenter for Global Health and Development and Department of Global Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
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Vichaels Silavwe
cMinistry of Health, Child Health Unit, Lusaka, Zambia.
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Karsten Lunze
dDepartment of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
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Rodgers K Mwale
eUnited Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Lusaka, Zambia.
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Scott Russpatrick
fAkros, Lusaka, Zambia.
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Davidson H Hamer
aZambian Centre for Applied Health Research and Development Limited, Lusaka, Zambia.
bCenter for Global Health and Development and Department of Global Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
gSection of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
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vol. 5 no. 3 486-494
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-16-00275
PubMed 
28855233

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Global Health: Science and Practice
Online ISSN 
2169-575X
History 
  • Received: August 29, 2016
  • Accepted: June 21, 2017
  • Published online September 28, 2017.

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  1. Godfrey Biembaa,b⇑,
  2. Boniface Chilubaa,
  3. Kojo Yeboah-Antwib,
  4. Vichaels Silavwec,
  5. Karsten Lunzed,
  6. Rodgers K Mwalee,
  7. Scott Russpatrickf,
  8. Davidson H Hamera,b,g
  1. aZambian Centre for Applied Health Research and Development Limited, Lusaka, Zambia.
  2. bCenter for Global Health and Development and Department of Global Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
  3. cMinistry of Health, Child Health Unit, Lusaka, Zambia.
  4. dDepartment of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
  5. eUnited Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Lusaka, Zambia.
  6. fAkros, Lusaka, Zambia.
  7. gSection of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
  1. Correspondence to Godfrey Biemba (gbiemba{at}gmail.com; biemba{at}bu.edu).
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