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Table 4 Emergent themes and sub-themes

From: Dispensing antiretrovirals during Covid-19 lockdown: re-discovering community-based ART delivery models in Uganda

Theme

Sub-themes

Home-based ART deliveries

• Dedicated vehicle fleets for home-based ART refills delivery.

• Expert patients as members of ‘mobile brigades’

Leveraging CDDPs

• Shifting ART refills distribution to outreach sites in the community.

• One peer-leader- per-sub-county refill distribution model.

Scaling up multi-month dispensing (MMDs)

• Extending refills from 3 to 6 months.

• ART refills to ‘visitor’ patients.

• Longer-term orders for ART supplies.

Increased reliance on health information systems

• Use of patient data bases for locating physical locations.

• Use of geo-spatial technologies

Leveraging Covid-19 response funding

• Utilizing Covid-19 community outreaches to deliver ART refills.

• Leveraging ‘Covid-19’ funding for fuel for ART refills distribution.