HIV incidence during a cluster-randomized trial of two strategies providing voluntary counselling and testing at the workplace, Zimbabwe.

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Published in AIDS on February 19, 2007

Authors

Elizabeth L Corbett1, Beauty Makamure, Yin Bun Cheung, Ethel Dauya, Ronnie Matambo, Tsitsi Bandason, Shungu S Munyati, Peter R Mason, Anthony E Butterworth, Richard J Hayes

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK. elc1@mweb.co.zw

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