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Special Issue: Countdown to 2015 for Maternal, Newborn and Child Survival

Patterns and trends of contraceptive use among sexually active adolescents in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, and Nigeria: evidence from cross-sectional studies

Sennen HountonUnited Nations Population Fund, New York, NY, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Aluisio J. D. BarrosInternational Center for Equity in Health, Federal University of Pelotas, Capão do Leão, Brazil
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Agbessi AmouzouUNICEF, New York, NY, USA
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Solomon ShiferawDepartment of Reproductive Health and Health Service ManagementSchool of Public Health, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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Abdoulaye MaïgaCentre for Demographic Research, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium;Institut Supérieur des Sciences de la Population, Ouagadougou University, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
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Akanni AkinyemiDepartment of Demography and Social StatisticsObafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria
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Howard FriedmanUnited Nations Population Fund, New York, NY, USA
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Desmond KoromaUnited Nations Population Fund, New York, NY, USA
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Article: 29737 | Received 12 Sep 2015, Accepted 07 Oct 2015, Published online: 09 Nov 2015

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