The contribution of emotional partners to sexual risk taking and violence among female sex workers in Mombasa, Kenya: a cohort study.

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Published in PLoS One on August 07, 2013

Authors

Stanley Luchters1, Marlise L Richter, Wilkister Bosire, Gill Nelson, Nzioki Kingola, Xu-Dong Zhang, Marleen Temmerman, Matthew F Chersich

Author Affiliations

1: Centre for International Health, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Australia. sluchters@burnet.edu.au

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