Taking the sex out of sexual health screening

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1. Take the sex out of STI screening! Views of young women on implementing chlamydia screening in General Practice
Natasha L Pavlin, Rhian Parker, Christopher K Fairley, Jane M Gunn and Jane Hocking
BMC Infectious Diseases (in press)

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