Provider Initiated Testing and Counseling (PITC) for HIV in Resource-limited Clinical Settings: Important Questions Unanswered

Overview

Journal Pan Afr Med J

Date 2011 May 3

PMID 21532713

Citations 14

Authors

Joseph Becker

Landry Tsague

Ruben Sahabo

Peter Twyman

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