Concurrent partnerships and HIV: an inconvenient truth.

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Published in J Int AIDS Soc on March 15, 2011

Authors

Helen Epstein1, Martina Morris

Author Affiliations

1: Departments of Sociology and Statistics, Box 354322 University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-4322, USA. helenepstein@yahoo.com

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