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What community-level strategies are needed to secure women's property rights in Western Kenya? Laying the groundwork for a future structural HIV prevention intervention

Shari L. DworkinDepartment of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Tiffany LuDepartment of Medicine Residency Training Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
,
Shelly GrabeDepartment of Psychology, University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
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Zachary KwenaCentre for Microbiology Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya
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Esther Mwaura-MuiruGROOTS Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya
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Elizabeth BukusiCentre for Microbiology Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya
Pages 754-757 | Received 12 Feb 2013, Accepted 12 Sep 2013, Published online: 14 Oct 2013

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