Accessing medicines for non-communicable diseases: Patients and health care workers’ experiences at public and private health facilities in Uganda

• Andrew K. Tusubira ,

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

  * E-mail: andrewtusu@gmail.com

  Affiliation Uganda Initiative for Integrated Management of Non-Communicable Diseases, Kampala, Uganda

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0435-3666

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• Ann R. Akiteng,

  Roles Formal analysis, Project administration, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Uganda Initiative for Integrated Management of Non-Communicable Diseases, Kampala, Uganda

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• Brenda D. Nakirya,

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

  Affiliation Uganda Initiative for Integrated Management of Non-Communicable Diseases, Kampala, Uganda

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• Ritah Nalwoga,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Uganda Initiative for Integrated Management of Non-Communicable Diseases, Kampala, Uganda

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• Isaac Ssinabulya,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Uganda Initiative for Integrated Management of Non-Communicable Diseases, Kampala, Uganda, Uganda Heart Institute, Mulago National Referral Hospital, Kampala, Uganda, Department of Medicine, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda

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• Christine K. Nalwadda ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Christine K. Nalwadda, Jeremy I. Schwartz

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliations Uganda Initiative for Integrated Management of Non-Communicable Diseases, Kampala, Uganda, Department of Community Health and Behavioural Sciences, School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• Jeremy I. Schwartz

  Contributed equally to this work with: Christine K. Nalwadda, Jeremy I. Schwartz

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliations Uganda Initiative for Integrated Management of Non-Communicable Diseases, Kampala, Uganda, Section of General Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0139-2600

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