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Providing family planning services to women in Africa

Access to contraceptives in Africa has not increased at the same pace as elsewhere in the world. Some African nations are investing in family planning services to reduce fertility rates, improve economic development and their population’s health. Tatum Anderson reports.

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Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: World Health Organization 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5578383/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28867840
http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.17.020917
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spelling pubmed-55783832017-09-02 Providing family planning services to women in Africa Bull World Health Organ News Access to contraceptives in Africa has not increased at the same pace as elsewhere in the world. Some African nations are investing in family planning services to reduce fertility rates, improve economic development and their population’s health. Tatum Anderson reports. World Health Organization 2017-09-01 2017-09-01 /pmc/articles/PMC5578383/ /pubmed/28867840 http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.17.020917 Text en (c) 2017 The authors; licensee World Health Organization. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution IGO License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/legalcode), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. In any reproduction of this article there should not be any suggestion that WHO or this article endorse any specific organization or products. The use of the WHO logo is not permitted. This notice should be preserved along with the article's original URL.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5578383/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28867840
http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.17.020917