Published in BMC Public Health on August 06, 2007
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The Good Schools Toolkit to prevent violence against children in Ugandan primary schools: study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial. Trials (2013) 1.20
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Managing men: women's dilemmas about overt and covert use of barrier methods for HIV prevention. Cult Health Sex (2009) 1.13
The importance of context: model projections on how microbicide impact could be affected by the underlying epidemiologic and behavioral situation in 2 African settings. Sex Transm Dis (2006) 1.10
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Remodelling core group theory: the role of sustaining populations in HIV transmission. Sex Transm Infect (2010) 0.99
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The cost-effectiveness of HIV preventive measures among injecting drug users in Svetlogorsk, Belarus. Addiction (2004) 0.98
The cost-effectiveness of consistent and early intervention of harm reduction for injecting drug users in Bangladesh. Addiction (2009) 0.97
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Promoting critical consciousness and social mobilization in HIV/AIDS programmes: lessons and curricular tools from a South African intervention. Health Educ Res (2010) 0.93
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Physical violence by a partner during pregnancy in Tanzania: prevalence and risk factors. Reprod Health Matters (2010) 0.93
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Meeting the health needs of trafficked persons. BMJ (2009) 0.93
An integrated health sector response to violence against women in Malaysia: lessons for supporting scale up. BMC Public Health (2012) 0.93
Community mobilization and empowerment of female sex workers in Karnataka State, South India: associations with HIV and sexually transmitted infection risk. Am J Public Health (2014) 0.92
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Sexual violence and conflict in Africa: prevalence and potential impact on HIV incidence. Sex Transm Infect (2010) 0.91