Approaches to HIV counselling and testing: Strengths and weaknesses, and challenges for the way forward

HIV/AIDS in South Africa 25 Years On: Psychosocial Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 165-182

  Van Rooyen, Heidi ^a   Richter, Linda ^a   Coates, Thomas J ^b   Boettiger, Merridy ^a  

^a HUMAN SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-0306-8_12     Document Type: Chapter

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