Effectiveness of needle-exchange programmes for prevention of HIV infection.

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Published in Lancet on June 21, 1997

Authors

S F Hurley1, D J Jolley, J M Kaldor

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Melbourne, Australia. shurley@csl.com.au

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