Health systems integration of sexual and reproductive health and HIV services in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping study.

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Published in J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr on December 01, 2014

Authors

Rebecca Hope1, Tamil Kendall, Ana Langer, Till Bärnighausen

Author Affiliations

1: *Women and Health Initiative, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA; †Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA; and ‡Programme on Health Systems and Impact Evaluation, Wellcome Trust Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies, Mtubatuba, South Africa.

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