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A Moment in History: Mass training for women village health workers in East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea

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Elizabeth Cox and Tekla Hendrickson describe how they achieved the training to enable 320 women volunteers to become village birth attendants and community sexual health educators in the East Sepik Women and Children's Health Project, Papua New Guinea.

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  1. HELP Resources Inc, Papua New Guinea

    Elizabeth Cox & Tekla Hendrickson

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Cox, E., Hendrickson, T. A Moment in History: Mass training for women village health workers in East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. Development 46, 101–104 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.development.1110455

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