Editorial: Adding to the menu of modern methods - The diaphragm

Sexual Health

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 101-102

  Holmes, Wendy ^a  

^a MACFARLANE BURNET INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONOXINOL 9; POLYCARBOPHIL;

BIRTH CONTROL; CHLAMYDIASIS; CONDOM; COUNSELING; EDITORIAL; FAMILY PLANNING; GONORRHEA; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; UTERINE CERVIX CAP; VAGINA MUCOSA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BARRIER CONTRACEPTION; CONSUMER; FEMALE; FEMALE CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICE; HUMAN; INTRAVAGINAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NOTE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRAVAGINAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONSUMER SATISFACTION; CONTRACEPTION BEHAVIOR; CONTRACEPTION, BARRIER; CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES, FEMALE; FEMALE; HUMANS; SEXUAL PARTNERS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 77954003146     PISSN: 14485028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/SH09077     Document Type: Editorial

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