Health care workers’ perceptions of point-of-care testing in a low-income country—A qualitative study in Southwestern Uganda

• Reza Rasti ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Reza Rasti, Deborah Nanjebe

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: reza.rasti@ki.se

  Affiliations Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Sachs’ Children and Youth Hospital, South General Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7816-8338

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• Deborah Nanjebe ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Reza Rasti, Deborah Nanjebe

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Epicentre Mbarara Research Center, Mbarara, Uganda

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• Jonas Karlström,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation UNICEF, Health Section, New York, United States of America

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• Charles Muchunguzi,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda

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• Juliet Mwanga-Amumpaire,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Epicentre Mbarara Research Center, Mbarara, Uganda, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda

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• Jesper Gantelius,

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

  Affiliations Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Division of Proteomics and Nanobiotechnology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Science for Life Laboratory, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Andreas Mårtensson,

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

  Affiliation Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, International Maternal and Child Health (IMCH), Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

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• Lourdes Rivas,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Proteomics and Nanobiotechnology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Science for Life Laboratory, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Francesc Galban,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Proteomics and Nanobiotechnology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Science for Life Laboratory, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Philippa Reuterswärd,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Proteomics and Nanobiotechnology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Science for Life Laboratory, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Helene Andersson Svahn,

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Proteomics and Nanobiotechnology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Science for Life Laboratory, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Helle M. Alvesson,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Yap Boum II ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Epicentre Mbarara Research Center, Mbarara, Uganda, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda

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• Tobias Alfvén

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Sachs’ Children and Youth Hospital, South General Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

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