A refusal to abandon HIV science

Abigail M Hatcher^{1

2}, Nicholas Metheny^{3

4}, K L Dunkle⁵, Rebecca Fielding-Miller⁶

Affiliations

¹ Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
² School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
³ School of Nursing, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
⁴ School of Nursing, University of Cape Town, Cape Town.
⁵ Center for Sexualities, AIDS & Gender, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
⁶ Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health, University of California, San Diego, California, USA.

Abigail M Hatcher et al. AIDS. 2025.

. 2025 May 1;39(6):768-770.

doi: 10.1097/QAD.0000000000004188. Epub 2025 Apr 3.

Abigail M Hatcher^{1

2}, Nicholas Metheny^{3

4}, K L Dunkle⁵, Rebecca Fielding-Miller⁶

¹ Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
² School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
³ School of Nursing, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
⁴ School of Nursing, University of Cape Town, Cape Town.
⁵ Center for Sexualities, AIDS & Gender, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
⁶ Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health, University of California, San Diego, California, USA.

No abstract available

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