Piloting a smartphone-based application for tracking and supply chain management of medicines in Africa

Henry Omoregie Egharevba; Omolola Fatokun; Mercy Aboh; Olobayo Olufunso Kunle; Solomon Nwaka; Karniyus Shingu Gamaniel

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0217976

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Piloting a smartphone-based application for tracking and supply chain management of medicines in Africa

Henry Omoregie Egharevba ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: omoregieegharevba@yahoo.com

Affiliation National Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development (NIPRD), Abuja, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nigeria (interdepartmental initiative)

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0200-326X

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Omolola Fatokun ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Omolola Fatokun, Mercy Aboh

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation National Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development (NIPRD), Abuja, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nigeria (interdepartmental initiative)
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Mercy Aboh ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Omolola Fatokun, Mercy Aboh

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development (NIPRD), Abuja, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nigeria (interdepartmental initiative)
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Olobayo Olufunso Kunle ,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation National Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development (NIPRD), Abuja, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nigeria (interdepartmental initiative)
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Solomon Nwaka ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Africa Network for Drugs and Diagnostics Innovation (ANDI), UNOPS, Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia
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Karniyus Shingu Gamaniel

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation National Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development (NIPRD), Abuja, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nigeria (interdepartmental initiative)
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Piloting a smartphone-based application for tracking and supply chain management of medicines in Africa

Henry Omoregie Egharevba,
Omolola Fatokun,
Mercy Aboh,
Olobayo Olufunso Kunle,
Solomon Nwaka,
Karniyus Shingu Gamaniel

Published: July 17, 2019
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0217976

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