Contraception
Volume 78, Issue 6 , Pages 465-473 , December 2008

Comparative crossover study of the PATH Woman's Condom and the FC Female Condom®

  • Jill L. Schwartz

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, CONRAD, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Arlington, VA 22209, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 703 524 4744; fax: +1 703 524 4770.
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  • Kurt Barnhart

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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  • Mitch D. Creinin

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh and Magee-Women's Research Institute, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
    • ,
  • Alfred Poindexter

      Affiliations

    • Advances in Health, Inc., Houston, TX 77030, USA
    • ,
  • Angie Wheeless

      Affiliations

    • Family Health International (FHI), Research Triangle Park, NC 27713, USA
    • ,
  • Maggie Kilbourne-Brook

      Affiliations

    • Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), Seattle, WA 98107, USA
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  • Christine K. Mauck

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, CONRAD, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Arlington, VA 22209, USA
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  • Debra H. Weiner

      Affiliations

    • Family Health International (FHI), Research Triangle Park, NC 27713, USA
    • ,
  • Marianne M. Callahan

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, CONRAD, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Arlington, VA 22209, USA

Received 7 May 2008 ,Revised 18 July 2008 ,Accepted 18 July 2008.

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PII: S0010-7824(08)00403-4

doi: 10.1016/j.contraception.2008.07.020

Contraception
Volume 78, Issue 6 , Pages 465-473 , December 2008

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