The editors of PLOS Medicine, together with guest editors Timothy Walsh, Ramanan Laxminarayan and Ana Cristina Gales, announce a forthcoming Special Issue…
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Call for Papers Call for Papers: PLOS Medicine Special Issue ‘Bacterial Antimicrobial Resistance: Surveillance and Prevention’Read more
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Global Health Celebrating World NTD Day 2022Read more
Written by the PLOS NTDs Editorial Team All of us at PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases — our managers, staff, Associate Editors, Deputy…
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Call for Papers World Malaria Day 2020 • Fighting malaria while fighting the COVID-19 pandemicRead more
The WHO estimates that in 2018, there were 228 million cases of malaria in 89 countries, with 405,000 resulting deaths. No significant…
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Covid-19 We need to support the WHO, not stop its funding in the middle of a pandemicRead more
The PLOS Medicine Editors discuss the need for global cooperation and solidarity to combat Covid-19, in light of the recent announcement…
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General Inexcusable Excuses: Reluctance to Quickly Improve MDR-TB TreatmentRead more
It’s time to stop making excuses and start taking action and implement the new WHO guidance for treating MDR-TB, argue Helena Huerga…
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Collections Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo endsRead more
PLOS will no longer actively triage Ebola content for expedited review, but will continue to update the Ebola Channel with new content…
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Cholera What’s coming for health science and policy in 2018? Global experts look ahead in their fieldRead more
Note: This PLOS Medicine Editorial appeared in Speaking of Medicine ahead of publication in the journal. The final version published on January…
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Cholera Cholera in Yemen: Why are vaccines not being used?Read more
PLOS Medicine Specialty Consulting Editor Lorenz von Seidlein urges the WHO to act in response current cholera outbreak in Yemen According to…
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Filariasis Eliminating Lymphatic Filariasis in CameroonRead more
PLOS NTDs Editors-in-Chief Peter Hotez and Serap Aksoy discuss new research and the global effort towards eliminating lymphatic filariasis. One of the…
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Access Malaria Prevention: Tackling the Gaps in Reaching the Hardest-to-ReachRead more
Estrella Lasry, Tropical Diseases Advisor at Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), describes the challenges of combating malaria in populations isolated by geography or violence…
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Global Health Combatting Neglected Tropical Diseases: Much Progress, but Millions of Neglected Patients Lack Access to CareRead more
Julien Potet of Médecins Sans Frontières discusses recent successes and presents suggestions for the next steps in the fight against NTDs. This week scientists…
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Global Health Perspectives Toward the Elimination of Hepatitis BRead more
Professor Guangxiang (George) Luo discusses recent advances in antiviral drug development and hepatitis B immunization which hold great promise for achieving the…