Teen Sex Ed in Rural Haiti
Introduction
This
article describes the experiences of a midwife and retired nursing professor, a
labor and delivery registered nurse (RN), and a family medicine physician
working together to provide sexual health education in rural Haiti in January
2019. Our...
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