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Table 1 Summary of findings using classification by theme and category

From: Collective patient behaviours derailing ART roll-out in KwaZulu-Natal: perspectives of health care providers

Theme

Category

Meaning unit

Socio-economic situation of patient

Poverty

• Lack of food

• Lack of transport fees

Belief system

Religious ideological/traditional

• Self-ordained religious prophets

• Use of traditional medicine.

Stigma

Non-disclosure

• Non-disclosure by women

• Non-disclosure of parents to their teenage children who are HIV positive.

• Non-disclosure of mothers when they leave the children in the care of grandmothers/ baby minders

Sexual practice

Culture/psychosocial factors

• Unacceptability of condom use.

• Teenage pregnancies

Escapism

Substance abuse

• Alcohol abuse

• Drug abuse (whoonga)

Opportunism

Abuse

• SASSA guidelines.

• Child grant