Health benefits and risks of reporting HIV-infected individuals by name.

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Published in Am J Public Health on June 01, 1998

Authors

G N Colfax1, A B Bindman

Author Affiliations

1: San Francisco Department of Public Health, AIDS Office, CA 94102-6033, USA. grantvcolfax@dph.sf.ca.us

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