Making a similar plea was Ahmad Shah Katawazai, a defense liaison at the Afghan embassy in Washington,: "We need to send a message to the families of the fallen that the mission their loved ones gave their valuable lives for has been accomplished".
We thank the doctors who gave their valuable time to participate in MABEL.
All authors involved in the analysis of the data, gave their valuable views, read and approved the final manuscript.
We would like to recognise the enormous contribution of the participants who gave their valuable time to participate in the study.
We are especially grateful to the GPs of the Wellington region who gave their valuable time and effort to participate in this study.
For the past eight years ING employees have been the cornerstone of the continued success of the partnership with UNICEF, enthusiastically giving their valuable time and money.
We thank the doctors who gave their valuable time to participate in MABEL, and the other members of the MABEL team for data cleaning and comments on drafts of this paper: Terence Cheng, Daniel Kuehnle, Matthew McGrail, Michelle McIsaac, Stefanie Schurer, Durga Shrestha and Peter Sivey.
Finally, we remained grateful to the health center's staff in all districts of Houaphanh and Xiengkhouang provinces who gave their valuable time so that we could work with them.
The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6963/12/440/prepub We sincerely thank the participants in the study for giving their valuable time to complete the interviews in support of this research.
