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Footnotes
This policy statement has been prepared by the Aboriginal Health Initiatives Sub-Committee approved by the Executive Council of the Society of Obstetricians Gynaecologists of Canada. This statement was also approved jointly by the Assembly of First Nations the Canadian Federation for Sexual Health, Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada, the NativeYouth Sexual Health Network, the Indigenous Physicians Association of Canada, the Canadian Association of Perinatal Women’s Health Nurses the Canadian Association of Midwives, the National Aboriginal Council of Midwives, the College of Family Physicians of Canada, the Canadian Medical Association, the Royal College of Physicians Surgeons of Canada the Society of Rural Physicians of Canada.
Disclosure statements have been received from all authors and committee members.
