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RESEARCH ARTICLE

Chaperones – are there other options?

Anna McNulty A B and Vickie Knight A
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A Sydney Sexual Health Centre, South Eastern Sydney and Illawarra Area Health Service, PO Box 1614, Sydney, NSW 2001, Australia.

B Corresponding author. Email: Anna.McNulty@sesiahs.health.nsw.gov.au

Sexual Health 4(3) 206-206 https://doi.org/10.1071/SH07049
Submitted: 4 July 2007  Accepted: 17 July 2007   Published: 23 August 2007


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