Barriers and facilitators to implementing six monthly multi-month dispensing of antiretroviral therapy in two urban HIV clinics during the COVID-19 Era in Malawi.

ABSTRACT: Following the COVID-19 pandemic, the Malawi Government released a policy that promoted the scale-up of six-monthly multi-month dispensing (6-MMD) of antiretroviral therapy (ART) to people living with HIV in order to decrease congestion at health facilities and transmission of COVID-19. We evaluated the barriers and facilitators to implementing the scale-up of 6-MMD.We conducted a cross-sectional study and collected quantitative and qualitative data from 13 January 2022 to 5 February 2022 at two high-volume primary health facilities in urban Blantyre, Malawi. A survey was self-administered to healthcare workers (HCWs) and a subset were purposively selected for key informant interviews. The interviews were guided by the consolidated framework for implementation research and questions focused

SUBMITTER: Chamanga R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11687738 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature