Atukunda, Esther CathylnMugyenyi, Godfrey R.Obua, CelestinoNajjuma, JosephineAturinda, IsaacAgaba, EdgarWare, Norma C.Matthews, Lynn T.2022-01-162022-01-162019Atukunda, E. C., Mugyenyi, G. R., Obua, C., Najjuma, J., Aturinda, I., Agaba, E., ... & Matthews, L. T. (2019). When women deliver at home with no one present: Are health care systems in Uganda driving women away?. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.2.16249/v1https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.2.16249/v1https://nru.uncst.go.ug/xmlui/handle/123456789/1303Uganda’s maternal mortality remains unacceptably high, with thousands of women and newborns still dying of preventable deaths from pregnancy and childbirth-related complications. Despite the fact that over 95% of women in Uganda attend at least one antenatal care (ANC) visit, over 30% of women still deliver at home with no skilled birth attendant, many choosing to come to hospital after experiencing a complication. We explored barriers to women’s decisions to deliver in a health care facility among postpartum women in rural southwestern Uganda, to ultimately inform interventions aimed at improving skilled facility births.enHealth care systemsUgandaWomenArticle