Feasibility of a Combination HIV Prevention Program for Men Who Have Sex With Men in Blantyre, Malawi.

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Published in J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr on October 01, 2015

Authors

Andrea L Wirtz1, Gift Trapence, Vincent Jumbe, Eric Umar, Sosthenes Ketende, Dunker Kamba, Mark Berry, Susanne Strömdahl, Chris Beyrer, Adamson S Muula, Stefan Baral

Author Affiliations

1: *Center for Public Health and Human Rights, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD; †Department of Emergency Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medical Institute, Baltimore, MD; ‡Center for the Development of People, Blantyre, Malawi; §Department of Health Systems and Policy Development, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi; and ‖Centre for Global Health, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.

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