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From Insecurity to Health Service Delivery: Pathways and System Response Strategies in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

Chiara Altare, Vito Castelgrande, Maphie Tosha, Espoir Bwenge Malembaka and Paul Spiegel
Global Health: Science and Practice December 2021, 9(4):915-927; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-21-00107
Chiara Altare
aCenter for Humanitarian Health, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
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  • For correspondence: chiara.altare{at}jhu.edu
Vito Castelgrande
aCenter for Humanitarian Health, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
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Maphie Tosha
bFoundation RamaLevina, Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Espoir Bwenge Malembaka
cCenter for Tropical Diseases and Global Health, Université Catholique de Bukavu, Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
dDepartment of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
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Paul Spiegel
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vol. 9 no. 4 915-927
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-21-00107
PubMed 
34933986

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Global Health: Science and Practice
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2169-575X
History 
  • Received: January 18, 2021
  • Accepted: October 15, 2021
  • Published online December 21, 2021.

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© Altare et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly cited. To view a copy of the license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. When linking to this article, please use the following permanent link: https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-21-00107

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  1. Chiara Altarea⇑,
  2. Vito Castelgrandea,
  3. Maphie Toshab,
  4. Espoir Bwenge Malembakac,d,
  5. Paul Spiegela
  1. aCenter for Humanitarian Health, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
  2. bFoundation RamaLevina, Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
  3. cCenter for Tropical Diseases and Global Health, Université Catholique de Bukavu, Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
  4. dDepartment of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
  1. Correspondence to Chiara Altare (chiara.altare{at}jhu.edu).
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