"It is her responsibility": partner involvement in prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV programmes, northern Tanzania.

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Published in J Int AIDS Soc on April 26, 2011

Authors

Eli Fjeld Falnes1, Karen Marie Moland, Thorkild Tylleskär, Marina Manuela de Paoli, Sia E Msuya, Ingunn Ms Engebretsen

Author Affiliations

1: Centre for International Health, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway. eli.fjeld@cih.uib.no

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