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Science 16 March 2007:
Vol. 315. no. 5818, pp. 1501 - 1502
DOI: 10.1126/science.1140057
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Policy Forum

PUBLIC HEALTH:
Return of the Population Growth Factor

Martha Campbell John Cleland, Alex Ezeh, Ndola Prata

The Millenium Development Goals set by the United Nations cannot be achieved unless family planning is made easily available in the lowest-income countries.

1School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-7360, USA.

2London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, WC1 3DP, UK.

3African Population and Health Research Centre, Nairobi, Kenya. M.C. was an advisor to the member of Parliament who initiated the hearings; J.C., A.E., and N.P. were among the expert witnesses.

*Author for correspondence. E-mail: campbell{at}berkeley.edu

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