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Commentary| Volume 81, ISSUE 6, P460-461, June 2010

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

      The International Conference on Family Planning, held in Kampala, Uganda, from November 15–18, 2009, drew over 1300 family planning researchers, program managers and health ministry officials from across the globe. This conference marked the reinvigoration of a global commitment to family planning.
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