 This study examined the experiences of men and women living with multi-morbidity in urban and rural Malawi. The researchers found that poverty and inadequate healthcare provision limited the ability to cope with the treatment burdens associated with multi-morbidity. Additionally, the lack of access to treatment or services was an important additional burden which must be integrated into accounts of treatment burden in low and middle income countries. This article was authored by Edith F. Chikumbu, Christopher Bunn, Steven Casenda, and others.