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The impact of income inequality in HIV testing among people who inject drugs in Tehran, Iran: A Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition

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Pages 290-294 | Received 10 Apr 2019, Accepted 28 Oct 2019, Published online: 05 Nov 2019

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