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Problems encountered by teenage mothers in the Southern Hho-Hho region of Swaziland

Lovegirl S Dlamini, Martie M van der Merwe, Valerie J Ehlers
Health SA Gesondheid | Vol 8, No 3 | a137 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/hsag.v8i3.137 | © 2003 Lovegirl S Dlamini, Martie M van der Merwe, Valerie J Ehlers | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 04 November 2003 | Published: 04 November 2003

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Lovegirl S Dlamini, University of South Africa, South Africa
Martie M van der Merwe, University of South Africa, South Africa
Valerie J Ehlers, University of South Africa, South Africa

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A qualitative, explorative, descriptive and contextual research approach was followed to study the problems experiencedby teenage mothers in the southern Hho-Hho region of Swaziland.

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’n Kwalitatiewe, eksploratiewe, beskrywende en kontekstuele navorsingsbenadering is gevolg tydens die studie van probleme wat deur tienermoeders in die suidelike Hho-Hho gebied van Swaziland ondervind is.

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