A qualitative study to explore daily versus on-demand oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in young people from South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe

• Janan Janine Dietrich ,

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

  * E-mail: dietrichj@phru.co.za

  ¶‡ JJD and NA shared first authorship on this work. JS and JF shared senior authorship on this work.

  Affiliations Perinatal HIV Research Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Health Systems Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Bellville, South Africa, African Social Sciences Unit of Research and Evaluation (ASSURE), Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1949-3138

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• Nadia Ahmed ,

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

  ¶‡ JJD and NA shared first authorship on this work. JS and JF shared senior authorship on this work.

  Affiliations Mortimer Market Centre, Central North West London NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom, Desmond Tutu HIV Centre, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Gugulethu Tshabalala,

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

  Affiliation Perinatal HIV Research Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Minju Wu,

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Harvard College, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

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• Mamakiri Mulaudzi,

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

  Affiliation Perinatal HIV Research Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Stefanie Hornschuh,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Perinatal HIV Research Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Millicent Atujuna,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Desmond Tutu HIV Centre, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Richard Muhumuza,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Uganda Research Unit, Entebbe, Uganda

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• Andrew Sentoogo Ssemata,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Uganda Research Unit, Entebbe, Uganda, Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0060-0842

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• Lynda Stranix-Chibanda,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Zimbabwe Clinical Trials Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Harare, Zimbabwe

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3566-1688

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• Teacler Nematadzira,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Zimbabwe Clinical Trials Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Harare, Zimbabwe

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• Linda-Gail Bekker,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Desmond Tutu HIV Centre, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Neil Martinson,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Perinatal HIV Research Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Janet Seeley ,

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

  ¶‡ JJD and NA shared first authorship on this work. JS and JF shared senior authorship on this work.

  Affiliations Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Uganda Research Unit, Entebbe, Uganda, Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0583-5272

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• Julie Fox

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

  ¶‡ JJD and NA shared first authorship on this work. JS and JF shared senior authorship on this work.

  Affiliation King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

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