Table 2.

Barriers for assessing body temperature throughout the fever diagnostics journey.

Category	Phases and their associated barriers
	Awareness	Movement	Diagnostics
Acceptability	Cultural beliefs and influence from community members	N/Aa	N/A
Accessibility	Mismatch between available information and awareness, knowledge, and education needs	Distribution of, and distance to, health care providers	N/A
Availability	N/A	N/A	Incomplete medical infrastructure Failure to utilize medical equipment Lack of health care professionals Lack of training of health care professionals Poor supervision of health care facilities by local authorities
Accommodation	N/A	Lack of relevant and complete diagnostic information	N/A
Affordability	N/A	Cost of treatment Cost of transport	Cost of treatment

^aN/A: not applicable.