Guest blog by Valéry Ridde, from the Département de médecine sociale et préventive, Centre de recherche du CHUM-Unité de Santé Internationale…
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General New tools to improve access to healthcare services for Africa’s worst-offRead more
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General Last call for abstracts for the Geneva Health Forum 2010Read more
The Geneva Health Forum is a biannual event organized by the Geneva University Hospitals and the Faculty of Medicine of the University…
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General Telegraph feature on scaling up mosquito netsRead more
Over this past summer, I took a short sabbatical after being awarded a mini-fellowship in global health reporting. For my fellowship, I…
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General PLoS Medicine is 5 this weekRead more
It’s five years this week since PLoS Medicine‘s inaugural issue. We’ve taken this opportunity to reflect on the past five years and…
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Public Mental health in KenyaRead more
On Sept 8 2009 I blogged about Kenya’s science cafés, and on October 13 2009 I blogged about the launch of PLoS…
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General Protecting hospitals from natural disastersRead more
Today is the UN’s International Day for Disaster Reduction. This year the UN is dedicating the day to highlighting the need to…
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Mental Health Action on global mental healthRead more
Last Friday, I attended the launch of the Centre for Global Mental Health (CGMH), a high profile event held at the London…
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Access Meeting the challenge of health information access with open online collaborationRead more
Guest blog by Sophie Beauvais, Communications & Web Content Manager, Global Health Delivery Project and Anat Rosenthal, research fellow, Department of Global…
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Collections Series on mental health in low and middle income countriesRead more
Packages of Care for Mental, Neurological, and Substance Use Disorders in Low and Middle Income Countries: Between October 2009 and February 2010…
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General PLoS Medicine 5th birthday paper competition – last week of voting!Read more
There is now only a week to go before our competition (to find the best medical paper published under an open-access license anywhere…
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Public Buying a Coke in Africa: are there lessons for malaria?Read more
Many African countries face serious shortages of essential global health tools, such as malaria drugs and mosquito nets. Often when these shortages…
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General Uniting Tanzanian Medical Students to Reverse the Brain DrainRead more
Guest blog by Evance L Mmbando, 3rd year medical student, Weill-Bugando University College of Health Sciences, Tanzania According to the World Health…