Acceptance of Treatment of Sexually Transmitted Infections for Stable Sexual Partners by Female Sex Workers in Kampala, Uganda.

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Published in PLoS One on May 12, 2016

Authors

Yunia Mayanja1, Aggrey David Mukose2, Susan Nakubulwa1, Gloria Omosa-Manyonyi3, Anatoli Kamali1, David Guwatudde2

Author Affiliations

1: MRC/UVRI Uganda Research Unit on AIDS, Entebbe, Uganda.
2: Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
3: College of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya.

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