Country profile. South Africa.

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Published in Lancet on May 24, 1997

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S R Benatar, P I Folb, J P van Niekerk, T H Bothwell, D J Ncayiyana, M Jacobs, D McCoy, S S Abdool Karim, M W Makgoba, O W Prozesky, R Kirsch

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