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Depression is not an inevitable outcome of disclosure avoidance: HIV stigma and mental health in a cohort of HIV-infected individuals from Southern India

Wayne T. Steward Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USACorrespondence[email protected].
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Sara Chandy St. John's Medical College and Hospital, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
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Girija Singh St. John's Medical College and Hospital, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
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Siju T. Panicker St. John's Research Institute, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
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Thomas A. Osmand Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
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Elsa Heylen Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
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Maria L. Ekstrand Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA; St. John's Research Institute, Bangalore, Karnataka, India; School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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Pages 74-85 | Received 15 Mar 2010, Accepted 01 Sep 2010, Published online: 07 Jan 2011

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