Challenges and commonly used countermeasures in the implementation of lifelong antiretroviral therapy for PMTCT in Central Uganda: Health providers' perspective.
Aggrey David MukoseHilde BastiaensFredrick MakumbiEsther BuregyeyaRose NaiginoJoshua MusinguziJean-Pierre Van GeertruydenRhoda K WanyenzePublished in: PloS one (2023)
This study highlights key challenges that health providers face in implementing lifelong antiretroviral therapy services among pregnant and postpartum women. Context-specific, innovative, and multilevel system interventions are required at national, district, health facility, community and individual levels to scale up and sustain the lifelong antiretroviral therapy strategy among pregnant and breastfeeding women.
Keyphrases
- healthcare
- antiretroviral therapy
- hiv infected
- mental health
- public health
- human immunodeficiency virus
- hiv aids
- hiv infected patients
- hiv positive
- polycystic ovary syndrome
- primary care
- quality improvement
- health information
- pregnant women
- health promotion
- physical activity
- preterm infants
- pregnancy outcomes
- adipose tissue
- skeletal muscle
- insulin resistance