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‘They were about to take out their guns on us’: accessing rural Afar communities in Ethiopia with HIV-related interventions

Rosalijn BothAmsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The NetherlandsCorrespondence[email protected]
,
Eyelachew EtsubNational Network of Positive Women Ethiopians, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
&
Eileen MoyerAmsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Pages S338-S350 | Received 31 Jul 2012, Accepted 02 Mar 2013, Published online: 10 May 2013

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