Table 2.

Example of theme development.

Quotes		Category	Theme
PLHIV-OT	HSP
“We don’t want to think of it (ARV) as a drug, but consider it a vitamin. If we take vitamins, we want to be healthy, right?”	“I’ve always told PLHIV that this drug is a ‘vitamin’. Drug or medicine has such a bad stigma in their mind.”	Lightening the “load” with euphemistic terminology	Intrapersonal level facilitators of treatment adherence at an advanced HIV age
“I told my friends in the peer support group, that ARV is … beauty pills (laughing), because we can be beautiful and productive again with the pills.”	“They (PLHIV-OT) need to think of it as doing daily activities such as brushing their teeth every night, having dinner, or taking daily vitamin.”
“My kids, my mom. My kids mostly. I want to be able to watch them grow up, finish college. That’s everyone hope I guess.”	“Like I’ve said before, the things that can help them (PLHIV-OT) to comply is their desire to live, their desire to be productive, and their desire to live with their family.”	Meaning-making through goals and spirituality
“All I know that I’m committed to always pick up the ARV whenever it’s available for me as I still want to be alive.”	“When someone has a spirit of life, he must has a purpose in life. For example, he wants to have a family one day, or he wants to stay alive until the children get old. That’s a motivation.”