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Table 2 Pull and Push Factors Affecting Health Services Access among Key Populations

From: Effectiveness of health care workers and peer engagement in promoting access to health services among population at higher risk for HIV in Tanzania (KPHEALTH): study protocol for a quasi experimental trial

Individual

Societal/community

Health system

• Economic status

• Socio-demographic characteristics (e.g. education, marital status, age)

• Knowledge about CHIP

• Individual stigma

• Perception of health care worker’s/health system

• Attitude towards health care system

• Access to health related media

• Medical history

• Individual experience with health care workers

• KP service satisfaction

• Experience with violence

• Experience with service integration

• Opinion on CHIP integration

• Stigma and discrimination

• Community perception about KP

• Community support to KP

• Community opinion on the health needs of KPs

• Social connectedness

• Community opinions on sharing health services /facilities with members of the KP

• Availability of safe KP congregation areas

• Community violence and abuse towards KPs

• Distance to health facility

• Patient load

• Number of health care workers

• Health care workers training on sexual and reproductive health issues

• Availability of CHIP guidelines

• Health care worker’s knowledge on the CHIP guidelines

• Health care worker’s perception on KP

• Health care worker’s stigma towards KP

• Health care worker’s attitude towards KP

• Commodity (condom, antibiotics for STI, antiretroviral, contraceptives etc.) stock out

• Opinion on KP service integration

• Experience with other service integration