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Forgetting in the recall of sexual and drug injection partners.




 

Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE ICA12/98407102

BACKGROUND: Provider referral partner notification activities and social network studies of HIV transmission involve interviewing people to elicit their sexual and/or drag injection partners. Incomplete recall of partners in these contexts would significantly hamper efforts to understand and control the spread of HIV. Although many reasons exist why individuals might not name their partners in such interviews, memory factors are likely to figure prominently. METHODS: Subjects were 156 persons in



 




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