Managing hypertension in rural Uganda: Realities and strategies 10 years of experience at a district hospital chronic disease clinic

• Joseph H. Stephens ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Joseph H. Stephens, Gerald A. Paccione

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

  * E-mail: jossteph@montefiore.org

  Affiliations Kisoro District Hospital, Kisoro, Uganda, Doctors for Global Health, Kisoro, Uganda, Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Faraz Alizadeh ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Kisoro District Hospital, Kisoro, Uganda, Doctors for Global Health, Kisoro, Uganda, Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Boston Medical Center/Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• John Bosco Bamwine ,

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Kisoro District Hospital, Kisoro, Uganda, Doctors for Global Health, Kisoro, Uganda

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• Michael Baganizi ,

  Roles Resources

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Kisoro District Hospital, Kisoro, Uganda

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• Gloria Fung Chaw ,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Kisoro District Hospital, Kisoro, Uganda, Doctors for Global Health, Kisoro, Uganda, Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Morgen Yao Cohen ,

  Roles Supervision

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Kisoro District Hospital, Kisoro, Uganda, Doctors for Global Health, Kisoro, Uganda, Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Amit Patel ,

  Roles Supervision

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Kisoro District Hospital, Kisoro, Uganda, Doctors for Global Health, Kisoro, Uganda, Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

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• K. J. Schaefle ,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Kisoro District Hospital, Kisoro, Uganda, Doctors for Global Health, Kisoro, Uganda, Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Jasdeep Singh Mangat ,

  Roles Supervision

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Kisoro District Hospital, Kisoro, Uganda, Doctors for Global Health, Kisoro, Uganda

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• Joel Mukiza ,

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Kisoro District Hospital, Kisoro, Uganda, Doctors for Global Health, Kisoro, Uganda

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• Gerald A. Paccione

  Contributed equally to this work with: Joseph H. Stephens, Gerald A. Paccione

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

  Affiliations Kisoro District Hospital, Kisoro, Uganda, Doctors for Global Health, Kisoro, Uganda, Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

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