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 Further Integration: The latest update to the MHTF & PLOS Maternal Health CollectionRead more
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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…
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Ebola The Global Response to the Ebola Fever Epidemic: What Took So Long?Read more
Mark J. Siedner of Harvard Medical School and John D. Kraemer of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown…
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Ebola Ebola: Liberians Destined for ExtinctionRead more
Liberian medical student Gondah Lekpeh gives us his perspective from the front lines of the Ebola outbreak. On July 22 of this…
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General Reflections on feces and its synonymsRead more
As medical parasitologists we tend not to be too squeamish when discussing human feces. They represent one of the “five F’s” of…
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General Introducing a New Look for the Journal HomepagesRead more
Today sees the launch of our re-vamped homepages for PLOS Medicine, PLOS Pathogens and PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. They’ve been designed to…
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Conference news Visit PLOS at IUMS 2014 in MontréalRead more
We are pleased to announce that PLOS Pathogens will be exhibiting at the International Union of Microbiological Societies (IUMS), July 27th – August…
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General World Hepatitis Day 2014 – Think AgainRead more
A former hepatitis virus researcher reminisces on the progress made and challenges remaining in the fight to eradicate chronic viral hepatitis. July…