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Microfinance/Microenterprise Approaches to HIV Prevention

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  1. Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N. Wolfe Street, E6543, 21205, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Rupali J. Limaye

  2. Department of Health, Behavior & Society, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N. Wolfe Street, E6543, 21205, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Susan G. Sherman

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  1. Rupali J. Limaye
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  1. Dept. Cell & Molecular Biology, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA

    Thomas J. Hope

  2. Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA

    Mario Stevenson

  3. University of California, San Diego Dept. Pathology, La Jolla, California, USA

    Douglas Richman

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  1. Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, 1120 NW 14th Street; Suite 1019, 33136, Miami, FL, USA

    Lisa R. Metsch

  2. Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 10032, New York, NY, USA

    Abby DiCarlo MA, MPH

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Limaye, R.J., Sherman, S.G. (2016). Microfinance/Microenterprise Approaches to HIV Prevention. 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_95-1

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