The case for paying patients to take their medication.

Getting patients to adhere to treatment is a common problem, not least for tuberculosis and not least in challenging settings. So Brazilian public health workers offered a cash reward. Rodrigo de Oliveira Andrade investigates whether the approach paid off

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