Contraception
Volume 79, Issue 6 , Pages 463-468 , June 2009

Duet® for menstrual protection: a feasibility study in Zimbabwe

  • Sarah Averbach

      Affiliations

    • Clinical and Translational Science Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.
    • ,
  • Nuriye Sahin-Hodoglugil

      Affiliations

    • Women's Global Health Imperative, RTI International, San Francisco, CA 94104, USA
    • ,
  • Petina Musara

      Affiliations

    • University of Zimbabwe-University of California San Francisco Research Collaborative Programme in Women's Health, Harare, Zimbabwe
    • ,
  • Tsungai Chipato

      Affiliations

    • University of Zimbabwe-University of California San Francisco Research Collaborative Programme in Women's Health, Harare, Zimbabwe
    • ,
  • Ariane van der Straten

      Affiliations

    • Women's Global Health Imperative, RTI International, San Francisco, CA 94104, USA
    • Department of Medicine, Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA

Received 30 September 2008 ,Revised 10 December 2008 ,Accepted 10 December 2008.

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☆ This study was funded by Reprotect, Inc. (contract # P0015330) when Drs. van der Straten and Sahin-Hodoglugil were at the Department of OBGYN, University of California San Francisco. Sarah Averbach was a Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellow/UCSF CTSI Fellow. The authors are not employed by, nor do they own equity in, Reprotect, Inc.

PII: S0010-7824(08)00551-9

doi: 10.1016/j.contraception.2008.12.002

Contraception
Volume 79, Issue 6 , Pages 463-468 , June 2009

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