Volume 50 - Article 31 | Pages 899–928
A new look at contraceptive prevalence plateaus in sub-Saharan Africa: A probabilistic approach
By Mark Wheldon, Vladimíra Kantorová, Joseph Molitoris, Aisha Dasgupta
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