Reviewer ’s report  
 
Title:  Examining adherence barriers among women with HIV to tailor outreach for long -acting  
injectable antiretroviral therapy  
 
Version: 0 Date: 09 Feb 2020  
 
Reviewer: ISAAC A BABARINSA  
 
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1. The authors are to be commended for a very useful addition to the literature on this subject.  
 
2. Page 8 (line152/153). Since this sentence refers to payment  made to the study subjects in the 
remote past, I feel that it reads better if it sounds like: 'had been' rather than 'were' and 'has been'.  
 
3. One other possible benefit of Long Acting Anti -Retroviral Therapy (LA -ART) over oral 
regimes may be about the av oidance of awkward questions following un -intended discovery by 
un-suspecting family or friends. Of course, self -disclosure is the ideal, it is unthinkable in many 
circumstances.  
 
4. Could the authors try to explain (a) why substance -abusing female subjects  were less adherent 
to LA -ART and were less likely to be virally -supressed? (b) why previous/current intravenous 
drug users 'feel differently' about LA -ART? If not, may I suggest that they mention it as one 
subject for future researchers to consider.  
 
5. Pa ge 14 (line 290) I am not sure what the term 'came up organically ' means . May need a 
synonym, or something.  
 
6. I suggest that the authors look again through their references. Some letters in journal titles 
should start with capital letters e.g. Lancet (? lancet); New England Journal of Medicine (new 
england journal of medicine?).  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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