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Married women’s autonomy and post-delivery modern contraceptive use in the Democratic Republic of Congo

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Published Online: 2018-03-12

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Authors

Sano, Yuji

Antabe, Roger

Atuoye, Kilian Nasung

Braimah, Joseph A.

Galaa, Sylvester Z. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5548-3543
Luginaah, Isaac
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Received: 5 September 2017

Accepted: 6 March 2018

First Online: 12 March 2018

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: The Democratic Republic of Congo Demographic and Health Survey (DRC–DHS II 2013–2014) received ethical approval from the ICF Macro Institutional Review Board, Maryland, USA. The data analyzed in this study was collected by the Ministry of Monitoring, Planning and Implementation of the Modern Revolution in collaboration with the Ministry of Public Health and the ICF Macro Institutional though the MEASURE DHS Project. Respondents’ informed consent to participate and for publication of the anonymised version of the data was obtained before data collection. Permission was obtained from MEASURE DHS to download data already anonymised from the DHS on-line platform for analysis in this study. In this regard, additional ethical approval was not necessary.

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