Correction: Enrollment in HIV Care Two Years after HIV Diagnosis in the Kingdom of Swaziland: An Evaluation of a National Program of New Linkage Procedures
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The caption for Table 1, " Clisssent and referral facility characteristics, by study-gender group, " should be " Client and referral facility characteristics, by study-gender group. " The publisher apologizes for the error. Please see Table 1 with the correct caption here. open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Enrollment in HIV Care Two Years after HIV Diagnosis in the Kingdom of Swaziland: An Evaluation of a National Program of New Linkage Procedures
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