Themes addressed in qualitative studies of the values and preferences about antiretroviral therapy in women living with HIV
| Child health | Maternal health | Burden of treatment | ||||
| Facilitator | Barrier | Facilitator | Barrier | Barrier | ||
| Desire to reduce transmission | Desire for child to be healthy | Concern about ART side effects | Desire to be healthy | Concern about ART side effects | Pill burden* | |
| Ciambrone 200732 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Ekama 201229 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Ferguson 201437 | ✓ | |||||
| Katiyari 201640 | ✓ | |||||
| Katiyari 20167 | ✓ | |||||
| Kim 20168 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Kohler 201438 | ✓† | ✓† | ||||
| Mawar 200730 | ✓ | |||||
| McDonald 201134 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Ndlovu 200931 | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| Richter 200236 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Siegel 200139 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Sowell 200135 | ✓ | ✓† | ✓† | |||
| Stinson 201233 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Zhou 20169 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
*Pill burden: reports of forgetting or too busy to take medication, as well as sleeping through medication dosing time, were considered pill burden.
†Authors wrote that women were concerned about harm to mother and/or child but did not provide more detail.
ART, antiretroviral therapy.