Last October PLOS Medicine published two research articles from separate groups investigating the association between continuous clean water supply and waterborne diseases. Aurélie…
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Cholera Catching up with the Authors: Aurélie Jeandron and Ayse Ercumen on Clean Water Supply in the DRC and India
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Global Health Zika Emergency Puts Open Data Policies to the Test
The Zika outbreak comes at a time of ongoing advances in data sharing policy, including a new call by the Wellcome Trust…
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General Will Zika become the 2016 NTD of the Year?
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases (PLOS NTDs) co-Editors-in-Chief Peter J Hotez and Serap Aksoy discuss the threat of zika virus spread throughout the…
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General Adiós, River Blindness: The journey from drug discovery to elimination
The PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases team celebrates the 2015 Nobel Prize winners as well as recent victories in onchocerciasis elimination efforts. Unless…
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Filariasis Filarial Diseases and the Nobel Prize for Medicine: Going Even Further for Neglected Patients
Claudia Pena Rossi of the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative reflects on the Nobel Prize winning work of William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura and the…
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Global Health PLOS NTDs co-Editor-in-Chief Serap Aksoy and Associate Editor Dan Masiga conduct a Manuscript Writing Workshop at University of Nairobi, Kenya.
By Serap Aksoy and Joel Ochieng An important goal for PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases (PLOS NTDs) is to develop global capacity in…
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Cancer Update to Blue Marble Health Collection
This week sees a major update to the PLOS Collection “Blue Marble Health: the mismatch between national wealth and population health” with…
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Cholera Nepal after the recent earthquakes: reconstruction and vaccine-preventable enteric diseases
In the wake of the recent devastating earthquakes, PLOS Medicine Consulting Editor Lorenz von Seidlein visited Nepal to assess outbreak risks. Lorenz…
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Global Health World Malaria Day 2015: A Conversation between Allan Schapira and Lorenz von Seidlein
On World Malaria Day 2015, Allan Schapira and Lorenz von Seidlein discussed the accomplishments and challenges of the fight against malaria. Lorenz…
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Global Health Training the Next Generation of Scientists from Disease Endemic Countries Should be a High Priority in Disease Elimination Efforts
Serap Aksoy, co-Editor in Chief of PLOS NTDs, comments on the importance of training young scientists in the Tropical Infectious Disease community. There is…
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General In Honor of Dr. Elisabetta Ullu
Kasturi Haldar, PLOS Pathogens Editor-in-Chief, reflects on Elisabetta Ullu’s pioneering contributions to the understanding of molecular mechanisms of RNAi in T. brucei…
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General Millennium Development Goal 6: Measuring Progress
One of the most dramatic international responses to the Millennium Development Goals launched by then United Nations Secretary Kofi Annan in 2000 has…