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Psychological and Socio-medical Aspects of AIDS/HIV
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Awareness and attitudes towards HIV/AIDS among residents of Kandy, Sri Lanka

Samidi NavaratnaDepartment of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
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Koji KandaDepartment of Global Health and Epidemiology, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
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Samath D. DharmaratneDepartment of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
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Sampath TennakoonDepartment of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
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Ananda JayasingheDepartment of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
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Niroshan JayasekaraNational STD/AIDS Control Programme, Colombo, Sri Lanka
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Katsutoshi NaganoDepartment of Global Health and Epidemiology, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
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Yoshihide ObayashiDepartment of Global Health and Epidemiology, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
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Asuna AraiDepartment of Global Health and Epidemiology, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
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Hiko TamashiroDepartment of Global Health and Epidemiology, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, JapanCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 387-391 | Received 29 Oct 2013, Accepted 04 Sep 2014, Published online: 10 Oct 2014

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