HIV Prevention Among Women Who Use Substances And Report Sex Work: Risk Groups Identified Among South African Women

Overview

Journal AIDS Behav

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2017 Sep 10

PMID 28887751

Citations 5

Authors

Wendee M Wechsberg

Courtney Peasant

Tracy Kline

William A Zule

Jacqueline Ndirangu

Felicia A Browne

Colby Gabel

Charles van der Horst

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Abstract

Trial Registration: ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT01497405.

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