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Volume 80, Issue 1
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, July 2009
Humanizing access to modern contraceptive methods in national hospitals in Guatemala, Central America
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☆ We are grateful to the Erik and Edith H. Bergstrom Foundation, knowing that without their financial support, the benefit that this type of intervention has in the public health of less developed countries would be impossible.
PII: S0010-7824(09)00027-4
doi: 10.1016/j.contraception.2009.01.006
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