Male contraceptive knowledge and practice: What do we know?

Reproductive Health Matters

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 90-100

  Hulton, Louise ^a   Falkingham, Jane ^a  

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EID: 0002099724     PISSN: 09688080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0968-8080(96)90009-9     Document Type: Article

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