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  1. Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA

    Julie A. Denison & Caitlin E. Kennedy

  2. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Division of Global and Community Health, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, 29407, SC, USA

    Virginia A. Fonner & Michael D. Sweat

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Denison, J.A., Fonner, V.A., Kennedy, C.E., Sweat, M.D. (2016). HIV Counseling and Testing, Prevention of HIV. In: Hope, T., Stevenson, M., Richman, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of AIDS. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9610-6_243-1

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