HIV and adolescents: focus on young key populations
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Young key populations and HIV: a special emphasis and consideration in the new WHO Consolidated Guidelines on HIV Prevention, Diagnosis, Treatment and Care for Key Populations
Received 1 September 2014; Revised 24 November 2014; Accepted 18 December 2014; Published 26 February 2015 Copyright: – 2015 Baggaley R et al; licensee International AIDS Society. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distributi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the International AIDS Society
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1758-2652
DOI: 10.7448/ias.18.2.20076