Concerns about HAART (Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy)

Adherence/Compliance

Adherence to HAART is very difficult because of toxicity. It is very difficult to known how adherent patients are because, as medical/legal expert Jay Katz noted, "many patients do not comply with their doctors' prescriptions and their physicians are largely unaware of such practices". This is particularly true with HAART both due to its toxicity and the fact that treatment may be quite coercive, particularly towards parents of HIV-positive children.