Challenges and commonly used countermeasures in the implementation of lifelong antiretroviral therapy for PMTCT in Central Uganda: Health providers’ perspective

• Aggrey David Mukose ,

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

  * E-mail: amukose@musph.ac.ug

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Global Health Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0309-8926

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• Hilde Bastiaens,

  Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Global Health Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, Department of Family Medicine and Population Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Fredrick Makumbi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• Esther Buregyeya,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Disease Control and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• Rose Naigino,

  Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Makerere University School of Public Health, Kampala, Uganda

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• Joshua Musinguzi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ministry of Health, Kampala, Uganda

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• Jean-Pierre Van Geertruyden,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Global Health Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Rhoda K. Wanyenze

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Disease Control and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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