Peter J Hotez and the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases discuss integrated control measures for NTDs. Among the unusual and striking…
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General Integrated Neglected Tropical Disease (NTD) Control: The Early YearsRead more
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General Assessing Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention in a Unprecendented Public Health InterventionRead more
PLOS launches a new collection, Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention: Improving Quality, Efficiency, Cost Effectiveness, and Demand for Services during…
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Collections Launch of the PLOS Pediatric Medicine CollectionRead more
PLOS Medicine Editors Rhona MacDonald and Amy Ross on the launch of the new PLOS Pediatric Medicine Collection and the upcoming Pediatric Academic Societies and…
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General Chikun—what?Read more
Kristy Murray urges preventative action in the United States against Chikungunya, a dangerous virus spread by mosquitoes which has already reached the…
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General Greater Clarity and Recognition of Who Did What in the Publication of ResearchRead more
Jo Scott and Liz Allen, from the Wellcome Trust’s Evaluation team, discuss the potential of a new “taxonomy” for classifying contributions to…
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General Acid violence – a most horrific form of denigration of womenRead more
Jocalyn Clark urges the global health community to press for high level change in legislation regarding acid violence. At a recent social…
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General Learning from the South: influenza immunization in pregnancyRead more
Writing from Dhaka, Bangladesh, Jocalyn Clark celebrates the impact of a paper by Bangladeshi researchers on Western medical provision. When two worlds…
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General Promoting Scientific Publications from Authors OverseasRead more
PLOS NTDs Deputy Editor Daniel Bausch reflects on a Manuscript Writing Workshop recently conducted in Lima, Peru. On February 19, 2014, PLOS…
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General Drug-Resistant TB: Dying for Better TreatmentRead more
On World TB day patient advocate Goodman Makhanda and Dr Jennifer Hughes from Médecins Sans Frontières reflect on successes and challenges of…
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General Challenging the Enemy-Tuberculosis- with Full ForceRead more
In the first of two linked posts for World TB Day, Sheetal Gandotra from the CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New…
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General Celebrating World Water Day with a good WASHRead more
This coming Saturday marks the 22nd year that the United Nations General Assembly has recognized March 22nd as World Water Day. In…
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General Health in Jeopardy: the Corporate Influence on Climate NegotiationsRead more
Alicia Pawluk argues that United Nations climate policymakers should learn from the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and diminish the influence…