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Globally, it is estimated that nearly 500,000 women die annually from causes related to pregnancy and child birthand 99% of these deaths occur in developing countries. Male involvement in the antenatal care services clearly goesagainst prevailing gender norms in many places in Sub-Saharan Africa. Despite instituting programme targeted atencouraging male partner participation in antenatal programmes. The purpose of the study was to investigate factorshindering Men involvement in Antenatal care services at Ishaka Adventist Hospital, Bushenyi District. The studywas conducted in Ishaka Adventist Hospital and descriptive cross-sectional design in nature and quantitativemethods of data collection was used. Data collection took a period of two weeks.Most out of 56 respondents, 73%influencer of health seeking behavior of a pregnant woman was husband, 18% were mother, 5% influencer weremother-in-law and only 4% influencer were other (grandmother). 86% (48) “Yes” said their cultures supportaccompanying pregnant female for ANC meanwhile 14% (8) “No” said their cultures support does not. Manyrespondents 39.3% demanded that they should be given couple first priority, 28.6% said others (employ male nurse),19.6% space for couple and only 12.5% health talk. The respondents suggested strategies to be used to encouragemen accompany their wives/partner to ANC clinic majority with 37 (66%) who reported that through communitysensitization followed by 12 (21%) supportive program and only 7 (13%) reported others (improve attitudes, involvedvillage health team. Couple should be given first priority whenever they come for antenatal care services