Time to cessation of exclusive breastfeeding and associated factors among women with children aged 6–24 months in Kilimanjaro region, northern Tanzania: A community-based cross-sectional study

Farida Ali; Sia E. Msuya; Redempta Mamseri; Melina Mgongo; Innocent B. Mboya

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0259041

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Time to cessation of exclusive breastfeeding and associated factors among women with children aged 6–24 months in Kilimanjaro region, northern Tanzania: A community-based cross-sectional study

Farida Ali ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: allyfarry02@gmail.com

Affiliation Institute of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College (KCMUCo), Moshi, Tanzania

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2151-5885

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Sia E. Msuya,

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Better Health for African Mother and Child (BHAMC), Moshi, Tanzania, Institute of Public Health, Department of Community Medicine, Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College (KCMUCo), Moshi, Tanzania, Department of Community Medicine, Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center (KCMC), Moshi, Tanzania
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Redempta Mamseri,

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Public Health, Department of Community Medicine, Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College (KCMUCo), Moshi, Tanzania
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Melina Mgongo,

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Better Health for African Mother and Child (BHAMC), Moshi, Tanzania, Institute of Public Health, Department of Community Medicine, Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College (KCMUCo), Moshi, Tanzania
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Innocent B. Mboya

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College (KCMUCo), Moshi, Tanzania, Institute of Public Health, Department of Community Medicine, Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College (KCMUCo), Moshi, Tanzania, School of Mathematics, Statistics & Computer Science, University of KwaZulu Natal, Pietermaritzburg, Scottsville, South Africa
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Time to cessation of exclusive breastfeeding and associated factors among women with children aged 6–24 months in Kilimanjaro region, northern Tanzania: A community-based cross-sectional study

Farida Ali,
Sia E. Msuya,
Redempta Mamseri,
Melina Mgongo,
Innocent B. Mboya

Published: October 28, 2021
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0259041

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