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Opinion - Why is HIV prevalence so severe in southern Africa.? The role of multiple concurrent partnerships and lack of male circumcision - implications for HIV prevention
Submitted: 12 April 2007 | Published: 25 April 2007
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Daniel T. Halperin, Harvard University, United StatesHelen Epstein, Princeton University, South Africa
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