Fertility and Sterility
Volume 82, Issue 4 , Pages 885-892 , October 2004

Efficacy of the new TwoDay Method of family planning

Received 25 November 2003 ,Revised 8 March 2004 ,Accepted 8 March 2004.

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 Support for conceptualizing the TwoDay Method, implementing the efficacy study, and preparing this article was provided by the Institute for Reproductive Health, Georgetown University, which is funded under a cooperative agreement HRN-A-00-97-00011-00 with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The views expressed by the authors do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of USAID or Georgetown University. The TwoDay Method is a trademark owned by the Institute for Reproductive Health, Georgetown University.

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doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2004.03.040

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 82, Issue 4 , Pages 885-892 , October 2004

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