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Negotiating sexual safety in the era of biomedical HIV prevention: relationship dynamics among male couples using pre-exposure prophylaxis

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Pages 658-672 | Received 08 Mar 2017, Accepted 14 Aug 2017, Published online: 05 Sep 2017

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