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TAKING EXCEPTION
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Fertility Awareness Methods Are Not Modern Contraceptives: Defining Contraception to Reflect Our Priorities

Kirsten Austad, Anita Chary, Alejandra Colom, Rodrigo Barillas, Danessa Luna, Cecilia Menjívar, Brent Metz, Amy Petrocy, Anne Ruch and Peter Rohloff
Global Health: Science and Practice June 2016, 4(2):342-345; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-16-00044
Kirsten Austad
aWuqu’ Kawoq | Maya Health Alliance, Santiago Sacatepéquez, Guatemala
bBoston Medical Center, Department of Family Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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Anita Chary
aWuqu’ Kawoq | Maya Health Alliance, Santiago Sacatepéquez, Guatemala
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Alejandra Colom
cPopulation Council, Guatemala City, Guatemala
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Rodrigo Barillas
dAsociación Alas, Antigua, Guatemala
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Danessa Luna
eAsociación Generando Equidad (ASOGEN), Chimaltenango, Guatemala
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Cecilia Menjívar
fUniversity of Kansas, Department of Sociology, Lawrence, KS, USA
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Brent Metz
gUniversity of Kansas, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Lawrence, KS, USA
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Amy Petrocy
hFriendship Bridge, Panajachel, Guatemala
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Anne Ruch
iSewHope, Petén, Guatemala
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Peter Rohloff
aWuqu’ Kawoq | Maya Health Alliance, Santiago Sacatepéquez, Guatemala
jBrigham and Women’s Hospital, Division of Global Health Equities, Boston, MA, USA
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vol. 4 no. 2 342-345
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-16-00044
PubMed 
27353626

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Global Health: Science and Practice
Online ISSN 
2169-575X
History 
  • Received: February 12, 2016
  • Accepted: May 17, 2016
  • Published online June 27, 2016.

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© Austad et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly cited. To view a copy of the license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/. When linking to this article, please use the following permanent link: http://dx.doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-16-00044.

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  1. Kirsten Austada,b,
  2. Anita Charya,
  3. Alejandra Colomc,
  4. Rodrigo Barillasd,
  5. Danessa Lunae,
  6. Cecilia Menjívarf,
  7. Brent Metzg,
  8. Amy Petrocyh,
  9. Anne Ruchi,
  10. Peter Rohloffa,j
  1. aWuqu’ Kawoq | Maya Health Alliance, Santiago Sacatepéquez, Guatemala
  2. bBoston Medical Center, Department of Family Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
  3. cPopulation Council, Guatemala City, Guatemala
  4. dAsociación Alas, Antigua, Guatemala
  5. eAsociación Generando Equidad (ASOGEN), Chimaltenango, Guatemala
  6. fUniversity of Kansas, Department of Sociology, Lawrence, KS, USA
  7. gUniversity of Kansas, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Lawrence, KS, USA
  8. hFriendship Bridge, Panajachel, Guatemala
  9. iSewHope, Petén, Guatemala
  10. jBrigham and Women’s Hospital, Division of Global Health Equities, Boston, MA, USA
  1. Correspondence to Peter Rohloff (prohloff{at}partners.org).
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