Cost of increasing access to artemisinin combination therapy: the Cambodian experience
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* Corresponding author: Shunmay Yeung shunmay.yeung@lshtm.ac.uk
Malaria Journal 2008, 7:84 doi:10.1186/1475-2875-7-84
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