Peter Hotez and Serap Aksoy, co-Editors in Chief of PLOS Neglected Tropical Diaseases, contemplate the recent rises in various vector-borne NTDs around the world…
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Dengue What’s with these Vector-borne Neglected Tropical Diseases?Read more
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Global Health Ending Tuberculosis in Afghanistan: working together towards a common goalRead more
Mohammad Razai discusses the fight against TB in Afghanistan and the need to focus on new shorter treatment for MDR TB through involvement…
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Global Health Shorter Regimens Offer New Hope to Adults and Children with MDR TB by Halving Treatment TimeRead more
Leonardo Palumbo, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), reflects on the new WHO guidelines for MDR-TB. Recent treatment regimens for drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) have resulted…
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Global Health Step up to Stop TBRead more
Grania Brigden discusses the findings of the Out of Step report into national TB policies. The report will be launched on December…
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Conference news More people, more time, better data – what we need to ‘treat-all’ with HIVRead more
On World AIDS Day 2015 and as the 18th International Conferences on AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA) is in full swing…
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Global Health Health and the Sustainable Development Agenda: Leaving No One with Disability BehindRead more
On the eve of the UN summit on Sustainable Development goals, Alarcos Cieza of the WHO reminds us that disability is part…
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Ebola Engaging the Public on Global HealthRead more
In the wake of Ebola, Sara Gorman (@saragorm) discusses the need to keep the general public engaged and informed on global health…
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Big Food Sweetening their own dealRead more
Michael F. Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (@CSPI), comments on a research article appearing in…
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Ebola Is Margaret Chan Really to Blame for the Delayed Ebola Response?Read more
Sara Gorman (@saragorm) discusses recent criticism of WHO Director-General Margaret Chan and whether the focus should be on failures in preparation rather than…
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Ebola Ebola Virus Disease: Platform for North-South Collaboration Urgently NeededRead more
Solomon Nwaka and colleagues summarize the outcomes of the September meeting of the Board, and Scientific and Advisory Committee (STAC) of the…
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General Millennium Development Goal 6: Measuring ProgressRead more
One of the most dramatic international responses to the Millennium Development Goals launched by then United Nations Secretary Kofi Annan in 2000 has…
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General What Do We Really Know About Social Resistance to Vaccines?Read more
Sara Gorman explores some of the factors behind anti-vaccination movements. Last year, polio eradication efforts were severely compromised by a rash of…