Translation of Biomedical Prevention Strategies for HIV
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Behavioral and biomedical combination strategies for HIV prevention.
Around 2.5 million people become infected with HIV each year. This extraordinary toll on human life and public health worldwide will only be reversed with effective prevention. What's more, in the next few years, it is likely at least, that no single prevention strategy will be sufficient to contain the spread of the disease. There is a need for combination prevention as there is for combinatio...
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عنوان ژورنال: JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1525-4135
DOI: 10.1097/qai.0b013e31829202a2