Highlights from the HIV Research for Prevention Conference (R4P),
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17–21 October 2016, Chicago, IL, USA Sandhya Vasan, Tanyaporn Wansom, Alexandra Schuetz, Shelly Krebs, Rasmi Thomas, Gustavao Kijak and Christina Polyak* 1 Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangkok, Thailand 2 US Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD USA 3 Henry M Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Bethesda, MD, USA
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