The 2022 Malawi Polio outbreak

. 2022 Sep;34(3):223-224.

doi: 10.4314/mmj.v34i3.14.

Affiliations

¹ District Environmental Health Officer, Head of Preventive and Promotive Health Services and District Incident Manager, Blantyre District Health Office, Blantyre District Council, Malawi.
² Directorate of Preventive Health Services, Program Manager for Expanded Program on Immunization, Operations Manager Polio Outbreak Response.
³ Public Health Institute of Malawi (PHIM), Ministry of Health, Lilongwe, Malawi.
⁴ Editor-in-Chief, Malawi Medical Journal and Professor & Head, Department of Community and Environmental Health, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences (KUHeS), Blantyre, Malawi.

Penjani Chunda et al. Malawi Med J. 2022 Sep.

. 2022 Sep;34(3):223-224.

doi: 10.4314/mmj.v34i3.14.

¹ District Environmental Health Officer, Head of Preventive and Promotive Health Services and District Incident Manager, Blantyre District Health Office, Blantyre District Council, Malawi.
² Directorate of Preventive Health Services, Program Manager for Expanded Program on Immunization, Operations Manager Polio Outbreak Response.
³ Public Health Institute of Malawi (PHIM), Ministry of Health, Lilongwe, Malawi.
⁴ Editor-in-Chief, Malawi Medical Journal and Professor & Head, Department of Community and Environmental Health, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences (KUHeS), Blantyre, Malawi.

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