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An assessment of the quality of advice provided by patent medicine vendors to users of oral contraceptive pills in urban Nigeria

INTRODUCTION: In Nigeria about 50% of oral contraceptive pill users obtain their products from proprietary patent medicine vendors (PPMVs). This group of service providers are poorly trained and have very limited knowledge about contraception. This paper investigated the nature of the advice offered...

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Autores principales:	Ujuju, Chinazo, Adebayo, Samson B, Anyanti, Jennifer, Oluigbo, Obi, Muhammad, Fatima, Ankomah, Augustine
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Dove Medical Press 2014
Materias:	Original Research
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3986293/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24748802 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/JMDH.S57117

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