HIV/AIDS: sex, abstinence, and behaviour change
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Abstinence and safer sex among adolescents.
To the Editor: The study by Dr Jemmott and colleagues 1 contributes important data to the effort to develop effective interventions that prevent sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease among young people. Although the authors used an ambitious study design and went to substantial lengths to document and validate the self-reported behaviors that were t...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Lancet Infectious Diseases
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1473-3099
DOI: 10.1016/s1473-3099(05)70219-x