‘We Keep It Secret So No One Should Know’ – A Qualitative Study to Explore Young Schoolgirls Attitudes and Experiences with Menstruation in Rural Western Kenya

• Linda Mason ,

  * E-mail: Linda.Mason@liverpool.ac.uk

  Affiliation Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom

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• Elizabeth Nyothach,

  Affiliation Kenya Medical Research Institute/Center for Disease Control Research and Public Health Collaboration, Kisumu, Nyanza Province, Kenya

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• Kelly Alexander,

  Affiliation Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom

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• Frank O. Odhiambo,

  Affiliation Kenya Medical Research Institute/Center for Disease Control Research and Public Health Collaboration, Kisumu, Nyanza Province, Kenya

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• Alie Eleveld,

  Affiliation Safe Water and AIDS Project, Kisumu, Nyanza Province, Kenya

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• John Vulule,

  Affiliation Kenya Medical Research Institute/Center for Disease Control Research and Public Health Collaboration, Kisumu, Nyanza Province, Kenya

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• Richard Rheingans,

  Affiliation Centre for African Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Kayla F. Laserson,

  Affiliations Kenya Medical Research Institute/Center for Disease Control Research and Public Health Collaboration, Kisumu, Nyanza Province, Kenya, Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Aisha Mohammed,

  Affiliation Division of Reproductive Health, Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Penelope A. Phillips-Howard

  Affiliation Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom

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