Reproductive Health Matters
Volume 12, Issue 24, Supplement , Pages 9-17 , November 2004

Age Patterns of Unsafe Abortion in Developing Country Regions

  • Iqbal Shah

      Affiliations

    • Coordinator, Preventing Unsafe Abortion, UNDP/UNFPA/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction (HRP), Department of Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland
    • ,
  • Elisabeth Åhman

      Affiliations

    • Technical Officer, HRP, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland
    • The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the World Health Organization.

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