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Psychological and Socio-medical Aspects of AIDS/HIV
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Comparing prevalence of HIV-related behaviors among female injecting drug users (IDU) whose regular sexual partner was or was not IDU in Sichuan and Yunnan Provinces, China

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Pages 909-917 | Received 17 Mar 2008, Published online: 29 Jun 2009

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