Good news for sex workers in Zimbabwe: how a court order improved safety in the absence of decriminalization
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Received 29 January 2017; Accepted 25 April 2017; Published 15 May 2017 Copyright: © 2017 Busza J et al; license 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, provided the original work is properly cited.
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