The Acceptability of a Vaginal Microbicide Among South African Men
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statistician, Amy Andrews is a visiting student and Landon Myer is social scientist, all with the HIV Prevention and Vaccine Research Unit, Medical Research Council, Durban, South Africa. Amy E. Weber is a researcher with the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. The authors would like to thank Joanne Mantell for her assistance with this article and the Medical Research Council for funding their research.
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تاریخ انتشار 2001