Education, poverty and "purity" in the context of adolescent girls' secondary school retention and dropout: A qualitative study from Karnataka, southern India

• Satyanarayana Ramanaik ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Satyanarayana Ramanaik, Martine Collumbien

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: satya@khpt.org

  Affiliation Karnataka Health Promotion Trust (KHPT), IT Park, Rajajinagar, Bangalore, India

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0157-7253

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• Martine Collumbien ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Satyanarayana Ramanaik, Martine Collumbien

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), London, London, United Kingdom

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• Ravi Prakash,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Karnataka Health Promotion Trust (KHPT), IT Park, Rajajinagar, Bangalore, India

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• Lottie Howard-Merrill,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), London, London, United Kingdom

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• Raghavendra Thalinja,

  Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Karnataka Health Promotion Trust (KHPT), IT Park, Rajajinagar, Bangalore, India

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• Prakash Javalkar,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Karnataka Health Promotion Trust (KHPT), IT Park, Rajajinagar, Bangalore, India

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• Srikanta Murthy,

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Karnataka Health Promotion Trust (KHPT), IT Park, Rajajinagar, Bangalore, India

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• Ben Cislaghi,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), London, London, United Kingdom

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• Tara Beattie,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), London, London, United Kingdom

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• Shajy Isac,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Karnataka Health Promotion Trust (KHPT), IT Park, Rajajinagar, Bangalore, India, Center for Global Public Health, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

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• Stephen Moses,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources

  Affiliation Center for Global Public Health, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

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• Lori Heise,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, United States of America

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• Parinita Bhattacharjee

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Karnataka Health Promotion Trust (KHPT), IT Park, Rajajinagar, Bangalore, India, Center for Global Public Health, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

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