Establishment of an HIV/sexually transmitted disease programme and prevalence of infection among incarcerated men in Jamaica.

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Published in Int J STD AIDS on February 01, 2010

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K Andrinopoulos1, D Kerrigan, J P Figueroa, R Reese, C A Gaydos, L Bennett, B Bloomfield, L Plunkett, C Maru, J M Ellen

Author Affiliations

1: Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA. kandrino@tulane.edu

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