Authors: Jenny Mwanza is a Senior Technical Advisor for the Data for Implementation (Data.FI) project. She leads Data.FI’s Data Use for Improvement…
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HIV Accelerating progress towards UNAIDS 95-95-95 goals: Data-use lessons from Akwa Ibom, Nigeria
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Global Health 5 lessons for achieving equity to end HIV
Author: Dr. Gloria Sangiwa During the last four decades we’ve seen stunning achievements in the global and local responses to HIV. We’ve…
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15th Anniversary Reflections from the PLOS Medicine Team: PLOS Medicine 15th Anniversary
Wrapping up the 15th Anniversary Collection, PLOS Medicine team members choose our favorite and most impactful articles from our time on the…
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General Community ART groups: bringing HIV treatment closer to patient’s homes and to communities in conflict
Charles Ssonko of Médecins sans Frontières describes the role of community groups in maintaining access to antiretroviral drugs for patients in Central…
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Call for Papers PLOS Medicine Announces a Call for Research Papers, on the Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Sexually Transmitted Infections
Guest editors Nicola Low of the University of Bern, Switzerland and Nathalie Broutet of the World Health Organization, along with PLOS Medicine Senior…
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Call for Papers PLOS Medicine Special Issue: Advances in HIV Prevention, Treatment and Cure
Update: the submission deadline for the Special Issue on HIV has been extended to June 16th. The editors of PLOS Medicine are delighted…
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Conference news More people, more time, better data – what we need to ‘treat-all’ with HIV
On World AIDS Day 2015 and as the 18th International Conferences on AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA) is in full swing…
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Conference news Simple but elusive – why are we still talking about HIV drug delivery?
Ahead of the International AIDS Society (IAS) Conference held in 2015 in Vancouver, Canada (July 19-22), Helen Bygrave of MSF discusses her…
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Collections When 2 Become 1: Integrating the Health Care needs of Mothers and Infants, the New MHTF-PLOS Collection on Maternal Health
In November 2013, PLOS Medicine and the Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF) called for submissions to Year 3 of the MHTF-PLOS Collection…
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Collections Advances in HIV Mucosal Immunology: Challenges and Opportunities
Florian Hladik from the University of Washington and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, USA, explains why recent research on…
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General Is the Global Fund Heading Backwards on Access to Medicines?
Suerie Moon from the Harvard School of Public Health warns against falling back on stale solutions for ensuring access to essential medicines. …
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General This Week in PLOS NTDs and PLOS Pathogens: NTD Elimination in a Shifting Policy Landscape, the Biology of Microbial Amyloids, Duplication of the Duffy Binding Protein Gene in P. vivax Strains
The following new articles are publishing this week in PLOS NTDs: The concept of NTDs was established in the aftermath of the…