HIV Self-testing: Lessons Learnt and Priorities for Adaptation in a Shifting Landscape

Overview

Journal BMJ Glob Health

Specialty Public Health

Date 2021 Jul 19

PMID 34275867

Citations 13

Authors

Ankur Gupta-Wright

Ruanne V Barnabas

Heather Ingold

Philippe Duneton

Ibrahim Abubakar

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