Women's Health Issues
Volume 17, Issue 1 , Pages 52-60 , January 2007

Intervening with couples: Assessing Contraceptive Outcomes in a Randomized Pregnancy and HIV/STD Risk Reduction Intervention Trial

  • Joan Marie Kraft, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Reproductive Health, United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Joan Marie Kraft, PhD, Division of Reproductive Health, United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Highway NE, MS K34, Atlanta GA, 30341.
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  • S. Marie Harvey, DrPH, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Public Health, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon
    • ,
  • Sheryl Thorburn, PhD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Public Health, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon
    • ,
  • Jillian T. Henderson, PhD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Bixby Center for Reproductive Health Research and Policy, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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  • Samuel F. Posner, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Reproductive Health, United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
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  • Christine Galavotti, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Reproductive Health, United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia

Received 12 December 2005 ,Revised 12 October 2006 ,Accepted 19 October 2006.

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 Conducted as part of the PARTNERS Project, which was supported by cooperative agreements #U30/CCU 915062-1-0 and #U30/CCU 615166-1-0 with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

PII: S1049-3867(06)00116-2

doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2006.10.006

Women's Health Issues
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