‘Worse than HIV’ or ‘not as serious as other diseases’? Conceptualization of cervical cancer among newly screened women in Zambia
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.01.028
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Zambia; Cervical cancer; Mass screening; HIV; Social representations; Access to care; Retention into care; Women; Stigma;All these keywords.
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