"Seek any means, and keep it your secret": Young women's attempts to control their reproduction through contraceptive and fertility practices in rural Tanzania

Tanzania Journal of Health Research

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 160-171

  Plummer, M L ^a   Wamoyi, J ^b   Shigongo, Z S ^b   Mshana, G ^c   Obasi, A I N ^d   Ross, D A ^a   Wight, D ^e  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b African Medical and Research Foundation Mwanza   (Tanzania)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Tanzania)

^d LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^e MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contraception; Fertility; Rural Africa; Tanzania; Young women

Indexed keywords

MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE;

ABORTION; ADOLESCENT; AMBIVALENCE; ARTICLE; ASH; CONDOM; CONTRACEPTION; DELIVERY; DRUG SAFETY; FEAR; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HORMONAL CONTRACEPTION; HUMAN; ILLEGITIMACY; INTERVIEW; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; RELIGION; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; RURAL AREA; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOCIAL BELIEF; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TANZANIA; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; UNWANTED PREGNANCY; WITCHCRAFT;

EID: 79961038393     PISSN: 18216404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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