The impact of an intervention to change health workers' HIV/AIDS attitudes and knowledge in Nigeria: a controlled trial.

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Published in Public Health on March 01, 2002

Authors

E N U Ezedinachi1, M W Ross, M Meremiku, E J Essien, C B Edem, E Ekure, O Ita

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medicine, University of Calabar, Calabar, Nigeria.

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