Opportunities lost: Barriers to increasing the use of effective contraception in the Philippines

• Mari Nagai ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: nagaimwho@gmail.com

  Affiliation Bureau of International Health Cooperation, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6731-5064

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• Saverio Bellizzi,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, Geneva, Switzerland

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• John Murray,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Independent consultant, maternal and child health, Iowa City, United States of America

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• Jacqueline Kitong,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation World Health Organization Philippines Country Office, Manila, Philippines

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• Esperanza I. Cabral,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health National Implementation Team (RP-RH NIT), Department of Health, Manila, Philippines

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• Howard L. Sobel

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of NCD and Health through Life-Course, Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health, World Health Organization Regional Office of the Western Pacific, Manila, Philippines

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