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Editorial
Contraception in Iran: revolution and evolution
  1. Lindsay Edouard
  1. International Advisory Editor, Port Louis, Mauritius
  1. Correspondence to Professor Lindsay Edouard; soranae{at}gmail.com

https://doi.org/10.1136/jfprhc-2016-101679

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    • Competing interests The author carried out assignments in Iran in 1984 with the World Health Organization for a review of primary health care and in 1987 with the United Nations Fund for Population Activities for the reorientation of the national family planning programme.

    • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.

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