Contraception
Volume 53, Issue 1 , Pages 17-21 , January 1996

Clinical outcomes of two early postpartum IUD insertion programs in Africa

  • Charles Morrison

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationName and address for correspondence: Charles S. Morrison, PhD, Epidemiologist II, Contraceptive Use and Epidemiology Division, Family Health Internationl, P.O. Box 13950, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709. Tel: 919-544-7040; Fax: 919-544-7261
    • Family Health International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
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  • Cynthia Waszak

      Affiliations

    • Family Health International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
    • ,
  • Karen Katz

      Affiliations

    • Family Health International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
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  • Fatimata Diabaté

      Affiliations

    • Maternité Hamdallaye, Bamako, Mali
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  • E.M. Mate

      Affiliations

    • Provincial General Hospital, Nyeri, Kenya

Received 12 May 1995 ,Revised 24 October 1995 ,Accepted 30 October 1995.

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Contraception
Volume 53, Issue 1 , Pages 17-21 , January 1996

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