Volume 31 - Article 28 | Pages 861–888
Migration, sexual networks, and HIV in Agbogbloshie, Ghana
By Susan Cassels, Samuel M. Jenness, Adriana A. E. Biney, William Kwabena Ampofo, F. Nii-Amoo Dodoo
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