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Rehabilitation in Practice

Barriers to accessing safe motherhood and reproductive health services: the situation of women with disabilities in Lusaka, Zambia

E Smith Centre for International Child Health, Institute of Child Health, London, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
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SF Murray Women's Health Academic Unit, Kings College London, St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK
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AK Yousafzai Centre for International Child Health, Institute of Child Health, London, UK
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L Kasonka University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia
Pages 121-127 | Accepted 01 Sep 2003, Published online: 07 Jul 2009

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