Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of Emergency Contraception among Female Undergraduate Health Science Students in Kenya
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How to Cite this Article: Isaiah G. Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of emergency contraception among female undergraduate health science students in Kenya. Ann Med Health Sci Res. 2017; 7: 206-210 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. Abstract
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