Richard Tren, Kimberly Hess and Roger Bate have written a fascinating commentary titled ‘Drug procurement, the Global Fund and misguided competition policies‘ …
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General Cheaper malaria drugs but more stockouts in Africa?Read more
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General This week in PLoS Medicine: Rape with extreme violence; Increasing access to surgery in Sub-Saharan Africa; Why is TB more common in men than in women?; and more!Read more
Read the new papers published in PLoS Medicine this week, including a Health in Action piece that discusses rape with extreme violence…
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Global Health Can the world afford to be run by countries? Final thoughts from COP-15Read more
Guest blog by Peter Byass, Director of Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, Sweden By now everybody knows that the outcome of…
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General This week in PLoS Medicine: Sand playground surfaces reduce risk of arm fractures; Influenza in Africa should not be ignored; Cardiovascular and suicide risk raised after prostate cancer diagnosis; The global spread of Hepatitis C Virus 1a and 1b; Addressing emerging zoonosesRead more
Read the new papers published in PLoS Medicine this week, including three Research Articles – the first finds that men newly diagnosed…
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General Snowstorms in CopenhagenRead more
Guest blog by Peter Byass, Director of Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, Sweden Back in Copenhagen today, there were heavy snowstorms…
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Global Health Climate and health – reporting from CopenhagenRead more
Guest blog by Peter Byass, Director of Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, Sweden As a health researcher, naturally I’ve been looking…
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Global Health COP15, 2 days in: a health researchers perspectiveRead more
Guest blog by Stig Wall, Professor of Epidemiology, Umeå University and Editor of Global Health Action Two days have passed at the…
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Policy Planned Ohio execution violates Declaration of HelsinkiRead more
Update December 10th: A sorry update to this post is that despite the many groups questioning the ethics and legality of the…
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Global Health On the way to Copenhagen for the UN Climate ConferenceRead more
Guest blog by Peter Byass, Director of Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, Sweden. Along with many others around the world, some…
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General Medics March for Climate Change ActionRead more
This is a Guest Blog by Alison Whyte, Media Adviser at Medact, and Editor of the Medact newsletter Communique. On Saturday, the…
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General New guidelines on retractions are now available from COPE – the Committee on Publication EthicsRead more
New guidelines on retractions are now available from COPE – the Committee on Publication Ethics. The guidelines were written by Liz Wager…
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General Climate change supplement from open access journal Global Health ActionRead more
With the upcoming UN Climate change conference COP-15 almost upon us, the editors of the open access journal Global Health Action have…