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. 2011 Apr;8(4):e1000429.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000429. Epub 2011 Apr 5.

The African Women's Protocol: bringing attention to reproductive rights and the MDGs

Liesl Gerntholtz  1 , Andrew Gibbs, Samantha Willan
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The African Women's Protocol: bringing attention to reproductive rights and the MDGs

Liesl Gerntholtz et al. PLoS Med. 2011 Apr.

Abstract

Andrew Gibbs and colleagues discuss the African Women's Protocol, a framework for ensuring reproductive rights are supported throughout the continent and for supporting interventions to improve women's reproductive health, including the MDGs.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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