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Psychological and Socio-medical Aspects of AIDS/HIV
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'The man who believed he had AIDS was cured': AIDS and sexually-transmitted infection treatment-seeking behaviour in rural Mwanza, Tanzania

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Pages 460-466 | Published online: 08 Dec 2010

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