A brief intervention for drug use, sexual risk behaviours and violence prevention with vulnerable women in South Africa: a randomised trial of the Women's Health CoOp.

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Published in BMJ Open on May 28, 2013

Authors

Wendee M Wechsberg1, Rachel Jewkes, Scott P Novak, Tracy Kline, Bronwyn Myers, Felicia A Browne, Tara Carney, Antonio A Morgan Lopez, Charles Parry

Author Affiliations

1: Substance Abuse Treatment Evaluations and Intervention Research, RTI International, Durham, North Carolina, USA.

Associated clinical trials:

Women-Focused HIV Prevention in the Western Cape (WC-WHC) | NCT00729391

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