Improving medication availability, patient-centered care, and reducing stigma are key strategies to improve antihypertensive adherence in Southwest Uganda.
There is an urgent need for the health ministry to improve availability of high blood pressure medication and for health care providers to deliver individualized patient centered care, and sensitization on danger of self-prescription and measures that reduce stigma. These strategies may improve adherence to high blood pressure medication.
Najjuma et al. (Wed,) studied this question.