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Psychological and Socio-medical Aspects of AIDS/HIV
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Psychometric evaluation of the HIV symptom distress scale

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Pages 1432-1441 | Received 13 May 2011, Accepted 09 Jan 2012, Published online: 12 Mar 2012

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