Dakar — A 25-year-old mother of five hailing from Senegal's eastern Tambacounda province believes that contraceptives damage the womb and cause health problems in the long term, such as a rise in blood pressure and chronic headaches.
"This is what I heard some women saying in the bus I boarded to go to town," the woman, now living in the capital city of Dakar after her tragic divorce, tells IPS.
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