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Ghana News Agency

...Quoting from the 2008 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey, the First Lady noted that the use of modern contraceptive methods among married women decreased from 19 per cent to 17 per cent in the preceding five- year period.
   
This reduction translated into approximately 123,000 women of reproductive age in Ghana being at risk of unintended pregnancy...

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Ghana News Agency

...Quoting from the 2008 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey, the First Lady noted that the use of modern contraceptive methods among married women decreased from 19 per cent to 17 per cent in the preceding five- year period.
   
This reduction translated into approximately 123,000 women of reproductive age in Ghana being at risk of unintended pregnancy...

URL to article: http://www.ghananewsagency.org/details/Health/First-Lady-urges-MMDAs-to-address-child-and-maternal-mortality/?ci=1&ai=34015