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Psychological and Socio-medical Aspects of AIDS/HIV
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“Not a walking piece of meat with disease”: meanings of becoming undetectable among HIV-positive gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men in the U = U era

Rayner Kay Jin TanSaw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore, SingaporeCorrespondence[email protected]
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Jane Mingjie LimSaw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore, SingaporeORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-9017-4714View further author information
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Jeremiah Kah Wai ChanFaculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore, SingaporeView further author information
Pages 325-329 | Received 13 Mar 2019, Accepted 30 Aug 2019, Published online: 17 Sep 2019

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