Contraception
Volume 81, Issue 6 , Pages 460-461 , June 2010

Family planning: the essential link to achieving all eight Millennium Development Goals

  • Willard Cates Jr.

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Received 21 December 2009 ,Accepted 5 January 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.contraception.2010.01.002

Contraception
Volume 81, Issue 6 , Pages 460-461 , June 2010