The report “Progress on Sanitation and Drinking-Water – 2010 Update Report“, assessing progress on MDG 7c (drinking water supply and sanitation), is now available from the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation. The good news is that progress on drinking water goals is on track; unfortunately, sanitation goals are lagging behind [...]
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Guest blog by Shah R. Ali, an MD candidate at Stanford Medical School.
Malaria is getting a cutting-edge, first world scientific treatment at the hands of synthetic biologist Jay Keasling.
The most effective antimalarial currently in use is artemisinin, which is effective against the Plasmodium falciparum species (the most lethal malaria-causing species), including multidrug-resistant forms. However, most [...]
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The World Health Organization uses the disability-adjusted life year (DALY), a time-based measure that combines years of life lost due to premature mortality and years of life lost due to time lived in states of less than full health, to measure the burden of diseases and health-related conditions. Estimating DALYS for neglected tropical diseases is [...]
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Problems with nutrition range from a lack of food to an imbalanced or inadequate diet. Being underweight is a major risk factor for both mortality and disease and poor nutrition affects long-term productivity and socioeconomic development. To highlight the problems of malnutrition and poor nutrition, and to spotlight some of the solutions that might [...]
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Guest post by Ruby Siddiqui and Jane Greig, Epidemiologists, Manson Unit, Médecins Sans Frontières, London, UK
Today sees the publication in PLoS Medicine of an article by Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) on quality control in laboratory work in the resource-poor settings where the agency works. Last week MSF published an article on rapid diagnostic tests in [...]
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Richard Tren, Kimberly Hess and Roger Bate have written a fascinating commentary titled ‘Drug procurement, the Global Fund and misguided competition policies‘ just published yesterday in the Malaria Journal. In this commentary they outline how the Global Fund to Fight AIDS,Tuberculosis and Malaria recently began asking some grant recipients to use international competitive bidding [...]
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With the upcoming UN Climate change conference COP-15 almost upon us, the editors of the open access journal Global Health Action have published a special collection of articles highlighting the effects of climate change on health. The collection is packaged as part of the latest issue, so you’ll need to scroll down to find specific [...]
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“True stories are not the best medicine but they are nutritious and sustaining”. So says Philip Pullman, award winning author, on the front page of Healthtalkonline (previously known as Dipex)—a website that allows anyone to hear other individuals’ experiences of health and illness. This site differs from others where patients share information since it is [...]
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Sense about Science, “an independent charitable trust promoting good science and evidence in public debates” has just published a short briefing paper on Systematic Reviews. The UK charity has the aim of “promoting respect for evidence and by urging scientists to engage actively with a wide range of groups, particularly when debates are controversial or [...]
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It’s five years this week since PLoS Medicine‘s inaugural issue. We’ve taken this opportunity to reflect on the past five years and what the future holds, both for medical publishing and the publishing landscape as a whole. Two editorials this year lay out our thoughts in more depth; the April 2009 editorial, A Medical Journal [...]
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