Contraception
Volume 80, Issue 6 , Pages 555-560, December 2009

Use of injectable progestin contraception and risk of STI among South African women☆

  • Audrey Pettifor

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7435, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Fax: +1 919 966 2089.
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  • Sinead Delany

      Affiliations

    • Reproductive Health and HIV Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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  • Immo Kleinschmidt

      Affiliations

    • Tropical Epidemiology Group, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT, UK
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  • William C. Miller

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7435, USA
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  • Julius Atashili

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7435, USA
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  • Helen Rees

      Affiliations

    • Reproductive Health and HIV Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Received 21 May 2008; received in revised form 2 December 2008; accepted 9 June 2009. published online 17 July 2009.

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☆ Dr. Pettifor's time was supported by the Developmental Awards Program of the National Institutes of Health National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Sexually Transmitted Infections and Topical Microbicide Cooperative Research Centers (STI-TM CRC) grants to the University of Washington (AI 31448) and the University of North Carolina (AI 31496). The main study was funded through a grant from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

PII: S0010-7824(09)00309-6

doi:10.1016/j.contraception.2009.06.007

Contraception
Volume 80, Issue 6 , Pages 555-560, December 2009

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