Maasai couples seek safer solutions to infertility.
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Bull World Health Organ 2010;88:885–886 | doi:10.2471/BLT.10.031210 Infertility is a public health problem that affects all societies, not least traditional ones such as the Maasai of East Africa. In this Bulletin interview, Weiyuan Cui talks to Dr Yadira Roggeveen, a medical officer at Endulen Hospital in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in the United Republic of Tanzania. Maasai couples seek safer solutions to infertility
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Bulletin of the World Health Organization
دوره 88 12 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2010