Emergency Contraception in Peru: Shifting Government and Donor Policies and Influences

Reproductive Health Matters

Volumn 15, Issue 29, 2007, Pages 139-148

  Chávez, Susana ^a   Coe, Anna Britt ^b  

^a Centro de Promocion y Defensa de los Derechos Sexuales y Reproductivos PROMSEX   (Peru)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

emergency contraception; Peru; reproductive health policy and programmes; reproductive rights; United States

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION; FAMILY PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PROGRAM; HORMONAL CONTRACEPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INDUCED ABORTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; UNPLANNED PREGNANCY; UTERINE TUBE LIGATION; VASECTOMY;

CONTRACEPTION, POSTCOITAL; FAMILY PLANNING SERVICES; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT AGENCIES; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; PERU; POLITICS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34248376078     PISSN: 09688080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0968-8080(07)29296-1     Document Type: Article

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