A qualitative study to understand the facilitators of and barriers to retention in care to the national PMTCT Option B+ programme in Uganda

Charity Kyomugisha-Nuwagaba; Rachel King; Rose Baryamutuma; Simon Muhumuza; Linda N. Kisakye; William Bazeyo; Evelyn Akello

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0314885

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A qualitative study to understand the facilitators of and barriers to retention in care to the national PMTCT Option B+ programme in Uganda

Charity Kyomugisha-Nuwagaba,

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

Affiliation Monitoring and Evaluation Technical Support, Makerere University School of Public Health, Kampala, Uganda
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Rachel King ,

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

* E-mail: Rachel.King@ucsf.edu

Affiliation Institute for Global Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0085-3498

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Rose Baryamutuma,

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

Affiliation Monitoring and Evaluation Technical Support, Makerere University School of Public Health, Kampala, Uganda
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Simon Muhumuza,

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Monitoring and Evaluation Technical Support, Makerere University School of Public Health, Kampala, Uganda
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Linda N. Kisakye,

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ministry of Health, AIDS Control Program, Kampala, Uganda
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William Bazeyo,

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Monitoring and Evaluation Technical Support, Makerere University School of Public Health, Kampala, Uganda
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Evelyn Akello

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

Affiliation Monitoring and Evaluation Technical Support, Makerere University School of Public Health, Kampala, Uganda
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A qualitative study to understand the facilitators of and barriers to retention in care to the national PMTCT Option B+ programme in Uganda

Charity Kyomugisha-Nuwagaba,
Rachel King,
Rose Baryamutuma,
Simon Muhumuza,
Linda N. Kisakye,
William Bazeyo,
Evelyn Akello

Published: January 16, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0314885

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