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Power relations and negotiations in contraceptive decision-making when husbands oppose family planning: analysis of ethnographic vignette couple data in Southwest Nigeria

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Pages 1439-1451 | Received 26 Jun 2018, Accepted 08 Jan 2019, Published online: 14 Feb 2019

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