Social inequality and HIV-testing: Comparing home- and clinic-based testing in rural Malawi

Demographic Research

Volumn 21, Issue , 2009, Pages 627-646

  Weinreb, Alexander ^a   Stecklov, Guy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

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EID: 77952007113     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14359871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2009.21.21     Document Type: Article

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