Distance to testing sites and its association with timing of HIV diagnosisFootnote^*

* Results were presented at the Society for Epidemiologic Research Annual Meeting, Denver, CO 16–19 June 2015. All research was conducted at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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