Rhona MacDonald, Freelance editor, (rhonamacdonald@gmail.com) We have all heard of political diplomacy and thanks to a recent series in PLoS Medicine, now…
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General Scientific diplomacy: new idea but the same old political agenda
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Policy Complicity or Abolition? The catastrophic consequences of good intentions
Dr Rhona MacDonald, Freelance editor (rhonamacdonald@gmail.com) Would it surprise or even shock you to know that the European Commission, (http://ec.europa.eu/) individual European…
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General Mother-to-child HIV transmission – stigma barrier to progress
Guest blog by Ditte A. Søndergaard1, Simone C. Hald1,3, Jeffrey V. Lazarus2,3 1 Department of Public Health, Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, Denmark 2…
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General After US Health Reform—What Comes Next?
Guest blog by Gavin Yamey, lead, E2Pi (Evidence-to-Policy initiative), Global Health Group, University of California San Francisco. YameyG@globalhealth.ucsf.edu The dust has now…
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Access Open Access to Development Data: The World Bank’s New Open Data Initiative
Guest blog by Meghan Reidy and Marco Schäferhoff, Evidence to Policy Initiative (E2Pi), San Francisco, USA. The World Bank announced this week…
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General MSF: Is Malaria all sewn up?
Guest post by Ruby Siddiqui and Martin de Smet, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) World Malaria Day on April 25 aims to highlight…
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General MSF: The problem of multidrug resistant TB (MDR-TB)
Guest blog by Dr. Philipp du Cros, Tuberculosis Programme Advisor, Manson Unit, Médecins Sans Frontières, London, UK. Mr S. looked calm and…
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General Life after PLoS: From Journal Editor to Academia
Guest blog by Gavin Yamey, MD MA MRCP, Lead, Evidence to Policy Initiative (E2Pi), Global Health Group, San Francisco, USA. Seven weeks…
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General Economic recessions: Good news for health?
Guest Blog by Janani Krishnaswami, a second-year resident in internal and preventive medicine at UCSF and Kaiser Permanente – San Francisco, and…
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General New Seroquel Documents available on the Drug Industry Document Archive (DIDA)
Guest blog by Kim Klausner, Tobacco Digital Library Manager, University of California, San Francisco, USA The Drug Industry Document Archive (http://dida.library.ucsf.edu) has…
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Neglected Diseases MSF: More action needed to treat the deadliest neglected tropical diseases
Guest blog by Gemma Ortiz, Neglected Diseases Senior Advocacy and Liaison Officer, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Barcelona, Spain Over 1 billion people…
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Conference news Progress tempered by reality of HIV control at 17th CROI
Guest blog by Steven Welch, Consultant in Paediatric HIV and Infectious Diseases, Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham, United Kingdom. Today is the fourth and…