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AIDS Care
Psychological and Socio-medical Aspects of AIDS/HIV
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Needle sharing and sex-related risk behaviours among drug users in Shenzhen, a city in Guangdong, southern China

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Pages 166-181 | Published online: 27 Sep 2010

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