Illegal yet developmentally normative: a descriptive analysis of young, urban adolescents' dating and sexual behaviour in Cape Town, South Africa.

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Published in BMC Int Health Hum Rights on July 10, 2013

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Aník Gevers, Cathy Mathews, Pam Cupp, Marcia Russell, Rachel Jewkes

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