the wide-spread medicalisation of contraceptives and fertility ˜ control, now being actively promoted as key to poverty-reduction (Brandao 2006). Although oral contraceptives and condoms are readily available in the Brazilian public healthcare system, efforts have focused, by and large, on tackling issues related to assumed low levels of medicalisation,1 including, for example, lack of knowledge about availability of contraceptives and lack of effective sexual education (e.g. Espejo et al. 2003)…
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