Reproductive Health Matters
Volume 13, Issue 25 , Pages 49-59 , May 2005

The Sexual and Reproductive Health of Young People in the Arab Countries and Iran

  • Jocelyn DeJong

      Affiliations

    • Lecturer, Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
    • ,
  • Rana Jawad

      Affiliations

    • Research Officer on Governance and Development, Institute for Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
    • ,
  • Iman Mortagy

      Affiliations

    • Consultant, UNAIDS Regional Office, Cairo, Egypt
    • ,
  • Bonnie Shepard

      Affiliations

    • International Health and Human Rights Program, François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston MA, USA

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