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Call for unified approach to HIV/AIDS and sexual and reproductive health

Volume 87, Number 11, November 2009

HIV/AIDS services must be integrated with sexual and reproductive health services if the goal of reducing HIV transmission is to succeed, according to a special issue of the international public health journal, the Bulletin of the World Health Organization. Volume 87, Number 11, November 2009, 805-884

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Linkages between sexual and reproductive health and HIV


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