Millennium Development Goals: Slow movement threatens women's health in developing countries

Contraception

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 247-249

  Burke, Anne E ^a   Shields, Wayne C ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BAYVIEW MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Association of Reproductive Health Professionals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AFRICA; CONDOM; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTRACEPTION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EDUCATION; EMPLOYMENT; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUNGER; IMMUNIZATION; KENYA; MALARIA; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MATERNAL WELFARE; PERU; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; PREVALENCE; PROSTITUTION; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; SURVIVAL; UNITED NATIONS;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FAMILY PLANNING SERVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MATERNAL WELFARE; ORGANIZATIONAL OBJECTIVES; PREJUDICE; UNITED NATIONS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 25144523840     PISSN: 00107824     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.contraception.2005.07.002     Document Type: Conference Paper

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