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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General Dismantling gains in global health?Read more
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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…
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Global Health World Malaria Day 2015: A Conversation between Allan Schapira and Lorenz von SeidleinRead more
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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Collections Drugs for Malaria: Need to Overcome Resistance to Artemisinins and Eliminate All Stages of Parasites in a Wide Range of Transmission and Disease SettingsRead more
In their second post honoring World Malaria Day, Kasturi Haldar, Editor-in-Chief of PLOS Pathogens, and Margaret Phillips comment on the challenges for…
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Collections Malaria: Targets and Drugs for All StagesRead more
This is the first of two linked posts commenting on the Malaria: Targets and Drugs for All Stages Collection. For additional analysis from Katsuri Haldar…
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Cancer Cancer Genomics: Data, Data and more DataRead more
PLOS Medicine’s Senior Research Editor, Clare Garvey, recently caught up with Francis Ouellette, the Associate Director of Informatics and Biocomputing at the…
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Cancer Child Cancer Care and Hospital Hygiene – Can We Have One without the Other?Read more
Jocalyn Clark (@JocalynClark) describes the challenge of achieving and maintaining basic cleanliness and sanitation in a children’s cancer ward in Dhaka, Bangladesh…
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Global Health Training the Next Generation of Scientists from Disease Endemic Countries Should be a High Priority in Disease Elimination EffortsRead more
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…