Public Health
Volume 121, Issue 9 , Pages 673-681 , September 2007

AIDS prevention in late adolescent college students from Spain and Portugal

  • A. Muñoz-Silva

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Huelva, Campus de El Carmen, s/n 21007 Huelva, Spain
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +34959219208; fax: +34 959219357.
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  • M. Sánchez-García

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Huelva, Campus de El Carmen, s/n 21007 Huelva, Spain
    • ,
  • C. Nunes

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, University of Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, 8005-139 Faro, Portugal
    • ,
  • A. Martins

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, University of Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, 8005-139 Faro, Portugal

Received 7 June 2006 ,Revised 8 January 2007 ,Accepted 17 January 2007.

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doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2007.01.010

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