Medium and long-term adherence to postabortion contraception among women having experienced unsafe abortion in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Rasch, Vibeke ^a,d   Yambesi, Fortunata ^b   Massawe, Siriel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b Temeke Municipal Hospital   (Tanzania)

^c MUHIMBILI MEDICAL CENTRE   (Tanzania)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEDROXYPROGESTERONE; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONDOM; CONTRACEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HIV EDUCATION; HORMONAL CONTRACEPTION; HUMAN; INDUCED ABORTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ORAL CONTRACEPTION; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SINGLE WOMAN; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; TANZANIA; UNWANTED PREGNANCY; WOMEN'S HEALTH; ADOLESCENT; AFTERCARE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COHORT ANALYSIS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; ILLEGAL ABORTION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SAFE SEX; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS; TIME; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ABORTION, CRIMINAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFTERCARE; COHORT STUDIES; CONDOMS; CONTRACEPTION BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; SAFE SEX; TANZANIA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 51349109987     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2393-8-32     Document Type: Article

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