Gonorrhoea: the pain and shame of notification
Katharine A. Wallis 1 3 , Peter J. Saxton 2
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1 Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
2 Department of Social and Community Health, New Zealand AIDS Foundation Fellow, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
3 Corresponding author. Email: k.wallis@auckland.ac.nz; k.wallis@uq.edu.au
Journal of Primary Health Care 11(3) 195-206 https://doi.org/10.1071/HC19038
Published: 20 September 2019
Journal Compilation © Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners 2019 This is an open access article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License
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