Community-Based Survey of Unwanted Pregnancy in Southwestern Nigeria
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Community-based survey of unwanted pregnancy in southwestern Nigeria.
Unwanted pregnancy, and consequently unsafe abortion, remains major reproductive health problems in Nigeria that needs to be tackled. Unfortunately, there is a dearth of information on this problem at the community level. This study therefore examined the prevalence of unwanted pregnancy in the community as well as associated factors including the views, perceptions and attitudes of community m...
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عنوان ژورنال: African Journal of Reproductive Health
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1118-4841
DOI: 10.2307/3583397