Médecins Sans Frontières’ Ian Woolley reports on the current hepatitis E outbreak in the refugee camps of South Sudan. Pestilence, along with…
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General The Horseman, the Donkey and the Virus: Hepatitis E in South SudanRead more
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Access Improving access to information: Day 2 of the global maternal health conference 2013Read more
I had the pleasure today of officially launching the Year 1 Open Access Collection on Maternal Health that PLOS has developed with…
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General The infelicities of quarantineRead more
In 2009, as panic struck global health systems confronted with the H1N1 flu epidemic, a familiar strategy was immediately invoked by health…
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Global Health Why focus on quality of care? Day 1 of the global maternal health conference 2013Read more
This blog is cross-posted at the Maternal Health Task Force blog. Today in Arusha, more than 700 delegates from around the world…
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General This Week in PLOS Medicine: HIV treatment disengagement; Aid displacement; Mental health in GeorgiaRead more
Five new articles published this week in PLOS Medicine, including a Perspective, discussing the further impact of one of our Research Articles…
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Global Health Aid Displacement: The story continuesRead more
by Jocalyn Clark, Senior Magazine Editor, and Virginia Barbour, Chief Editor, PLOS Medicine Today in PLOS Medicine we publish two commissioned Perspectives…
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General This Week in PLOS Medicine: Call for papers; Benefits of statins; Mental health in LMICsRead more
PLOS Medicine closes out 2012 with three new articles, including an Editorial call for papers: The PLOS Medicine editors issue a call…
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General TEDx San Francisco: 7 Billion WellRead more
Ruby Singhrao reports from last month’s TEDx San Franicsco conference, dedicated to advances in global health. On November 10th 2012, the University…
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General Childhood nonsexual trauma: The long-term outcomes of physical and emotional maltreatment and neglectRead more
Estimates on the prevalence of child maltreatment vary widely, but the numbers are wrenching: around the world, 4%-16% of all children are…
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General The humanitarian impact of European laws targeting Google NewsRead more
David Scales and John Brownstein from Healthmap discuss why laws aimed at news aggregators will have an unintended impact on mapping emerging…
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General This Week in PLOS Medicine: Tuberculosis in LMICs; Trends in infertility; Older persons in humanitarian responseRead more
Three articles published this week in PLOS Medicine: Frank Cobelens and colleagues systematically reviewed research on implementation and cost-effectiveness of the WHO-recommended…
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General Estimates from the Global Burden of Disease can become a global public good only if the data are made publicRead more
As most of the global health community may be aware, today the long-awaited findings of the Global Burden of Disease 2010 (GBD2010)…