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HIV/AIDS and political controversies in modern South Africa

Kiran Pienaar: Politics in the making of HIV/AIDS in South Africa. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, 157pp, £63.00 HB

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Weinel, M. HIV/AIDS and political controversies in modern South Africa. Metascience 26, 165–168 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-016-0148-8

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