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The Effect of Geography on HIV and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Tijuana’s Red Light District

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  1. Division of Global Public Health, University of California, San Diego, USA

    Tommi L. Gaines, Melanie L. A. Rusch, Kimberly C. Brouwer & Steffanie A. Strathdee

  2. Ministry of Health, State of Baja California, Tijuana, Mexico

    Remedios Lozada

  3. Department of Geography, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA

    Emily E. Perkins

  4. Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA

    Thomas L. Patterson

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Gaines, T.L., Rusch, M.L.A., Brouwer, K.C. et al. The Effect of Geography on HIV and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Tijuana’s Red Light District. J Urban Health 90, 915–920 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-012-9735-1

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