Time to focus on improving the contraceptive method mix in high HIV prevalence settings and let go of unanswerable questions

Contraception

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 357-359

  Jones, Heidi E ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; ESTROGEN; GESTAGEN; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; NORETHISTOERONE ENANTHATE; PROGESTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANAL INTERCOURSE; ATTITUDE TO SEXUALITY; COITUS; CONDOM USE; CONTRACEPTION; HERPES SIMPLEX; HORMONAL CONTRACEPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1 INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; INFECTION RISK; NONHUMAN; NOTE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SIMIAN ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; UNPROTECTED SEX; ETHICS; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; MATERNAL MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; PROCEDURES; CONTRACEPTIVE BEHAVIOR; HEALTH HAZARD; MEASUREMENT ERROR; UNWANTED PREGNANCY;

CONTRACEPTION; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENTS, FEMALE; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY AS TOPIC; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84907361249     PISSN: 00107824     EISSN: 18790518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.contraception.2014.05.014     Document Type: Note

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