Provider Initiated Testing and Counseling (PITC) for HIV in resource-limited clinical settings: important questions unanswered
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Pan African Medical Journal, 2009 3:4 This article is available online at: http://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/editorial/3/4/ © Joseph Becker et al. The Pan African Medical Journal ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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