MEDICINE: Take HAART

Continental doctors take leadership in British medicine.

Within living memory it would have been unthinkable for the manager of the England football team to be a continental European. Not only has that happened, but also every football team in the country has players from across the Channel. In the Middle Ages, the Archbishop of Canterbury spoke with a foreign accent on more than one occasion. In the future will the Presidents of the Royal Colleges d...

Progress in Medicine: Experts Take Stock

In the year-end editorial, the PLOS Medicine editors ask 11 researchers and clinicians about the most relevant challenges, promising research, and important initiatives in their fields as we head into 2016.

Should medicine take over tattoo removal?

Adherence to HAART: Africans Take Medicines More Faithfully than North Americans

Amir Attaran In 2001, the chief of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Andrew Natsios, gave this justifi cation to the US Congress for why the agency opposed giving antiretroviral therapy (ART) to Africans with HIV: “If we had [HIV medicines for Africa] today, we could not distribute them. We could not administer the program because we do not have the doctors, we do ...

Why Don’t People Take their Medicine? Experimental Evidence from Kenya

The standard public finance approach to health care in less developed countries involves identifying and heavily subsidizing priority health interventions that generate treatment externalities (e.g., vaccines). A popular recent approach instead argues that health education, community mobilization, and cost-recovery are also necessary for successful programs. We focus on the case of intestinal w...