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ORIGINAL ARTICLES

“It's my secret”: Barriers to paediatric HIV treatment in a poor rural South African setting

E.W. Kimani-MurageAfrican Population and Health Research Center (APHRC), Nairobi, Kenya;MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South AfricaCorrespondence[email protected] [email protected]
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L. MandersonSchool of Psychology and Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Victoria, Australia;School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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S.A. NorrisMRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit, Department of Pediatrics, School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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K. KahnMRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa;Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden;INDEPTH Network, Accra, Ghana
Pages 744-747 | Received 31 Dec 2011, Accepted 22 Oct 2012, Published online: 18 Dec 2012

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