Mobile reporting of vaccine stock-levels in primary health care facilities in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa: perceptions and experiences of health care workers

@article{Iwu2020MobileRO,
  title={Mobile reporting of vaccine stock-levels in primary health care facilities in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa: perceptions and experiences of health care workers},
  author={Chinwe Juliana Iwu and Ntombenhle J Ngcobo and Sara Cooper and Lindi Mathebula and Hlokoma Mangqalaza and Abongile Magwaca and Usuf M. E. Chikte and Charles Shey Wiysonge},
  journal={Human Vaccines \& Immunotherapeutics},
  year={2020},
  volume={16},
  pages={1911 - 1917},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:211477018}
}
The perceptions and experiences of the SVS system amongst healthcare workers (HCWs) who are involved with managing stock levels of medicines in primary health care facilities in the Eastern Cape Province are explored to identify potential barriers and facilitators to implementation of the system and contribute to the development of strategies to improve its efficiency and effectiveness.
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