Facilitators and challenges to exclusive breastfeeding in Belagavi District, Karnataka, India

• Umesh Charantimath,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Belagavi, Karnataka, India

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• Roopa Bellad,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Belagavi, Karnataka, India

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• Niranjana Majantashetti,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Belagavi, Karnataka, India

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• Yukiko Washio,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation RTI International, Research Triangle Park, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Richard Derman,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Patricia J. Kelly ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: Kellypj@umkc.edu

  Affiliation University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8143-7153

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• Vanessa Short,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Esther Chung,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Shivaprasad Goudar

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Belagavi, Karnataka, India

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8680-7053

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