More than 100 years on from the discovery, by British surgeon Ronald Ross, that mosquitoes transmit malaria parasites to humans, DFID (Department…
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General DFID launches public consultation to inform UK malaria business planRead more
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General Pakistan floods: medical coordination is essentialRead more
Dr Rhona MacDonald, Freelance editor ([email protected]). COI: RM is the honorary executive director of MCAI As more news about the devastating floods…
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General The UN Declares Access to Water and Sanitation a Human RightRead more
Maggie Brown, MS, ELS is Senior Production Editor at PLoS On July 28, the UN General Assembly took an important step on…
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: The Burma MOM Project; Strategy and Ecology in the Elimination of MalariaRead more
This week in the spectrum of article types available from PLoS Medicine, we published a new research article, essay and policy forum…
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General Randomised trials are not just for medicinesRead more
In his Bad Science column this week, Ben Goldacre looked at the evidence for various methods of teaching children to read. As…
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General Global health research survey: Who is healthier?Read more
A survey launched yesterday – the “Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2010 Health Measurement Survey” is aiming to…
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: Social relationships and mortality; ECG repolarization patterns; Editorial on maternal and child HIV treatment & moreRead more
Five new articles have been published this week in PLoS Medicine including three research articles: In a meta-analysis, Julianne Holt-Lunstad and colleagues…
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Conference news MSF: Beyond Vienna: possible game-changers for scaling up optimal AIDS treatmentRead more
Guest blog by Sharonann Lynch, HIV/AIDS Policy Advisor, Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), New York…
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: Adult male circumcision in South Africa; HIV testing for children; Prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmissionRead more
Coinciding with the International AIDS Conference hosted this week in Vienna, PLoS Medicine has published three articles on HIV testing and prevention…
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General UNAIDS’ OutlookRead more
Dr Rhona MacDonald, Freelance Editor [email protected] As the world the gears up for the XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna (a country…
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General UNAIDS' OutlookRead more
Dr Rhona MacDonald, Freelance Editor [email protected] As the world the gears up for the XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna (a country…
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Policy Reducing bias in systematic reviews – a bid for registrationRead more
The Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, based at the University of York in the UK, has just launched a new initiative for…