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Global Public Health
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Volume 11, 2016 - Issue 7-8: The trouble with ‘Categories’: Rethinking men who have sex with men, transgender and their equivalents in HIV prevention and health promotion
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‘You should build yourself up as a whole product’: Transgender female identity in Lima, Peru

Lealah PollockDepartment of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Alfonso Silva-SantistebanCenter for Interdisciplinary Research on Sexuality, AIDS, and Society, Cayetano Heredia University (Centro de Investigación Interdisciplinaria en Salud, Sida, y Sociedad de la Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia), Lima, Peru
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Jae SeveliusDepartment of Medicine, Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, Center of Excellence for Transgender Health, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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Ximena SalazarCenter for Interdisciplinary Research on Sexuality, AIDS, and Society, Cayetano Heredia University (Centro de Investigación Interdisciplinaria en Salud, Sida, y Sociedad de la Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia), Lima, Peru
Pages 981-993 | Received 24 Feb 2015, Accepted 01 Mar 2016, Published online: 15 Apr 2016

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