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Community approval required for periconceptional adolescent adherence to weekly iron and/or folic acid supplementation: a qualitative study in rural Burkina Faso

BACKGROUND: Iron deficiency remains a prevalent adolescent health problem in low income countries. Iron supplementation is recommended but improvement of iron status requires good adherence. OBJECTIVES: We explored factors affecting adolescent adherence to weekly iron and/or folic acid supplements i...

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Autores principales: Compaoré, Adélaïde, Gies, Sabine, Brabin, Bernard, Tinto, Halidou, Brabin, Loretta
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5852966/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29540225
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12978-018-0490-y