Peter Hotez, co-Editor in Chief of PLOS NTDs, comments on President Obama’s call for global action to prepare for future disease outbreaks…
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General Global Health Security and the NTDsRead more
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General PLOS Medicine launches a new Collection on Universal Health CoverageRead more
A new PLOS Medicine collection, Monitoring Universal Health Coverage, provides technical details and country-level experience of the implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of…
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General In Honor of Dr. Elisabetta UlluRead more
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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Ebola Ebola: a Blind OutbreakRead more
Grazia Caleo of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) UK describes her experiences as a medical epidemiologist during the Ebola outbreak in Kailhun, Sierra…
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General When Implementing Universal Health Coverage, Context MattersRead more
As the WHO’s Millennium Development Goals reach their final phase, Sara Gorman reflects on what we have learned about how political, cultural…
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General When Retroviral Research Goes ViralRead more
The PLOS Pathogens team reflects on their most widely shared article and the benefits and pitfalls of sharing science research on social…
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General Further Integration: The latest update to the MHTF & PLOS Maternal Health CollectionRead more
In November 2013, PLOS Medicine and the Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF) called for submissions to the third year of the MHTF-PLOS Collection on Maternal Health…
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General Who Should Contribute to Funding of Global Health R&D and How Much?Read more
The international community recently gave WHO a mandate to advance global health R&D by creating a pooled international fund for a first…
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Ebola PLOS Resources on EbolaRead more
Virginia Barbour, Medicine & Biology Editorial Director at PLOS, on the urgent need for Open Access research into the Ebola outbreak in West…
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General Why ICART, a New Research Center in the D.R.Congo, is NeededRead more
An International Center for Advanced Research and Training (ICART) has been launched in Panzi, Bukavu, in the South-Kivu Province of the DR…
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General Visceral leishmaniasis-HIV coinfection: Time for Concerted ActionRead more
As PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases launches its Visceral Leishmaniasis-HIV Collection, Johan van Griensven discusses the importance of a multidisciplinary approach to tackling VL-HIV…
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General Venezuela: An Emerging Tropical Disease and Humanitarian Emergency?Read more
At the International Congress of Parasitology (ICOPA XIII) held in Mexico City earlier this month, we learned of a very serious and…