Response to "Oral PrEP for young African women and men".
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Response to ‘‘Oral PrEP for young African women and men’’ Connie L Celum, Sinead Delany-Moretlwe, Margaret McConnell, Heidi van Rooyen, Linda-Gail Bekker, Ann Kurth, Elizabeth Bukusi, Chris Desmond, Jennifer Morton and Jared M Baeten Corresponding author: Connie L Celum, Department of Global Health, University of Washington, 325 Ninth Avenue, Box 359927, Seattle, WA 98104, USA. Tel: 1 206 520 3800. ([email protected])
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Received 30 October 2015; Accepted 13 January 2016; Published 17 February 2016 Copyright:– 2016 Santos RP; 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, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, ...
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of the International AIDS Society
دوره 19 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2016