The utilization of testing and counseling for HIV: a review of the social and behavioral evidence.

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Published in Am J Public Health on August 29, 2007

Authors

Carla Makhlouf Obermeyer1, Michelle Osborn

Author Affiliations

1: Department of HIV, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. obermeyerc@who.int

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