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Psychological and Socio-medical Aspects of AIDS/HIV
Volume 21, 2009 - Issue 2
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“I'm sorry, you're positive”: a qualitative study of individual experiences of testing positive for HIV

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Pages 185-188 | Received 09 Aug 2007, Published online: 19 Feb 2009

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