“…A large body of literature on barriers to alcohol SBA in PHC exists, suggesting lack of time, lack of training, providers' attitudes and lack of organisational support, as core factors affecting delivery (Johnson et al, 2011;Rahm et al, 2015;Abidi et al, 2016;Derges et al, 2017;Vendetti et al, 2017), However, most of this evidence comes from HIC (eg, UK, US, Finland, Sweden, Australia) (Johnson et al, 2011;Derges et al, 2017), and there is less knowledge of whether the barriers are the same in low-and middle-income countries (LMIC). In Latin America, for example, the few published studies have focussed on barriers to SBA implementation in specialised rather than PHC settings (Hoffman et al, 2016;Isela et al, 2016), and identified factors such as lack of standardised guidelines, lack of training of the providers, lack of providers' perceived role responsibility, lack of time, lack of proper infrastructure and diversity of users affecting their delivery. These barriers echo some of those found in HIC (Johnson et al, 2011;O'Donnell et al, 2014;Derges et al, 2017).…”