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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Global Health Health and the Sustainable Development Agenda: Leaving No One with Disability BehindRead more
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Cancer “Don’t just do something, Stand there!”: Highlights from PODC 2015Read more
Jack O’Sullivan (@JackOSullivan3) recounts highlights from the third Preventing Overdiagnosis Conference, hosted last week by U.S. National Cancer Institute. Fifteen hundred years…
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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.Read more
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 CollectionRead more
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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General Hello, We’re OpenRead more
Karin Purshouse (@karinpurshouse), a clinical and academic junior doctor in Oxford, invites you to join the conversation with other early career researchers…
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Conference news Simple but elusive – why are we still talking about HIV drug delivery?Read more
Ahead of the International AIDS Society (IAS) Conference held in 2015 in Vancouver, Canada (July 19-22), Helen Bygrave of MSF discusses her…
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General Dismantling gains in global health?Read more
As the Third International Conference on Financing for Development begins in Ethiopia, Áine Markham of Médecins Sans Frontières warns that basing funding decisions on…
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Collections Lessons and Challenges for Developing and Delivering HIV Programs for Sex WorkersRead more
Today sees the addition of an important paper to the PLOS Collection Focus on Delivery and Scale: Achieving HIV Impact with Sex…
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Global Health Advocating for Equitable Access to Global Health Internship OpportunitiesRead more
Kaleem Hawa, Oluwaseyi Owaseye, Tara Kedia, and Ashton Barnett-Vanes comment on unequal access to global health career training opportunities and announce a fundraising campaign to…
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co-infection Malaria and Epstein-Barr Virus: A Lethal CombinationRead more
A recent study in PLOS Pathogens investigates how Epstein-Barr virus and malaria co-infection may create a lethal combination if the timing is right. Epstein-Barr virus…
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Cholera Nepal after the recent earthquakes: reconstruction and vaccine-preventable enteric diseasesRead more
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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General MSF Scientific Day 2015: a conference without bordersRead more
Sarah Venis, Research Coordinator at Médecins Sans Frontières, highlights the topics at the 2015 MSF Scientific Day, May 7th and 8th in London and New…