The appropriateness of core group interventions using presumptive periodic treatment among rural Zimbabwean women who exchange sex for gifts or money.

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Published in J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr on February 01, 2005

Authors

Frances M Cowan1, John W Hargrove, Lisa F Langhaug, Shabbar Jaffar, Lovemore Mhuriyengwe, Todd D Swarthout, Rosanna Peeling, Ahmed Latif, Mary T Bassett, David W G Brown, David Mabey, Richard J Hayes, David Wilson

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Royal Free and University College Medical School, London, UK. frances@uz-ucsf.co.zw

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