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This work was supported by award number R01HD055868 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute Of Child Health & Human Development and by National Institute of Mental Health center grant P30MH052776 (PI: Jeffrey A. Kelly, PhD). The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute Of Child Health & Human Development or the National Institutes of Health. The authors thank Dziko Chatata, Josephine Ulimwengu, Mahdu Deshmukh, and Kent Glenzer with CARE Malawi and CARE USA for their assistance in developing the NICHD project described.
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Weinhardt, L.S., Galvão, L.W., Stevens, P.E. et al. Broadening Research on Microfinance and Related Strategies for HIV Prevention: Commentary on Dworkin and Blankenship (2009). AIDS Behav 13, 470–473 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10461-009-9561-y
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