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Psychological and Socio-medical Aspects of AIDS/HIV
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Sex and secrecy: How HIV-status disclosure affects safe sex among HIV-positive adolescents

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Pages 47-58 | Received 10 Feb 2015, Accepted 06 Jul 2015, Published online: 29 Nov 2015

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