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Psychological and Socio-medical Aspects of AIDS/HIV
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Development of a treatment optimism scale for HIV-positive gay and bisexual men

David J. Brennan Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, CanadaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Seth L. Welles Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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Michael H. Miner Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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Michael W. Ross Houston Health Science Centre, School of Public Health, University of Texas, Houston, TX, USA
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Kenneth H. Mayer Department of Medicine and Community Health, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
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B.R. Simon Rosser School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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The Positive Connections Team School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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Pages 1090-1097 | Received 03 Jun 2008, Published online: 07 Oct 2009

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