Attitudes to voluntary counselling and testing for HIV among pregnant women in rural south-west Uganda.

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Published in AIDS Care on October 01, 2001

Authors

R Pool1, S Nyanzi, J A Whitworth

Author Affiliations

1: Medical Research Council Programme on AIDS in Uganda, Entebbe, Uganda. rpool@starcom.co.uk

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