Reproductive Health Matters
Volume 8, Issue 15 , Pages 132-141 , May 2000

Men's attitudes towards a potential vaginal microbicide in Zimbabwe, Mexico and the USA

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Reproductive Health Matters
Volume 8, Issue 15 , Pages 132-141 , May 2000