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Acknowledgements This article was based on the first author’s PhD which was financed by the Malawi Health Research Capacity Strengthening Initiative. We thank Mr Patrick Naphini formerly of the Ministry of Health and Mrs Mafase Sesani at CHAM Secretariat for helping with the data. We also thank Mr Jacob Mazalale for useful comments on the article.

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Funding: Work on this article has been partially funded by the European Commission FP7 Program (grant agreement 258583) as part of the DECIDE project. Sole responsibility lies with the authors; the European Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained therein.

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Funding: Work on this article has been partially funded by the European Commission FP7 Program (grant agreement 258583) as part of the DECIDE project. Sole responsibility lies with the authors; the European Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained therein.