Sustained High HIV Incidence in Young Women in Southern Africa: Social, Behavioral, and Structural Factors and Emerging Intervention Approaches.

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Published in Curr HIV/AIDS Rep on June 01, 2015

Authors

Abigail Harrison1, Christopher J Colvin, Caroline Kuo, Alison Swartz, Mark Lurie

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Brown University School of Public Health, 121 South Main St./2nd Floor, Providence, RI, 02912, USA, abigail_harrison@brown.edu.

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