The abandoned trials of pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV: what went wrong?

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Published in PLoS Med on July 19, 2005

Authors

Jerome A Singh1, Edward J Mills

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1: Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research, South Africa.

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