Julien Potet and Katy Athersuch from Médecins Sans Frontières’ Access Campaign discuss a backward step for medical research & development. Ten years…
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Access Stuck in a time warp: WHO-brokered global R&D action plan shelved
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General PLOS NTDs 5th Anniversary Tweetchat & Call for Papers
As part of the journal’s ongoing fifth-anniversary celebration, PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases invites readers and colleagues to join us for a tweet…
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General PLOS NTDs 5th Anniversary Tweetchat & Call for Papers
As part of the journal’s ongoing fifth-anniversary celebration, PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases invites readers and colleagues to join us for a tweet…
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Neglected Diseases PLOS NTDs Fifth Anniversary: Questions for Co-Editors-in-Chief Peter Hotez and Serap Aksoy
To celebrate the Fifth Anniversary of the launch of PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, we are proud to announce the following new releases…
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General Cryptococcal Meningitis: A Major Killer in HIV/AIDS Programmes in Resource-Poor Settings
Daniel O’Brien reflects on the challenges of treating cryptococcal meningitis in developing countries. Being a doctor in the era of bringing antiretroviral…
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General Should Deworming Policies in the Developing World be Reconsidered?
The World Health Organization (WHO) currently recommends periodic drug treatment to deworm all children living in areas where soil-transmitted helminths are endemic…
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Mental Health Call for papers: PLoS Medicine series on Global Mental Health Practice
Today PLoS Medicine launches a new series on the best ways to help people with mental health problems around the world. The series…
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Collections New PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases Collection Charts a Course for Elimination of Helminthiases
More than half of the world’s population is at risk of helminthiases (parasitic worms), and hundreds of millions of people are currently…
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Collections New PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases Collection Charts a Course for Elimination of Helminthiases
More than half of the world’s population is at risk of helminthiases (parasitic worms), and hundreds of millions of people are currently…
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MSF The Tomorrow of Neglected Tropical Diseases
Guest blogger Dr Rachel ter Horst, medical advocacy advisor at Médecins Sans Frontière, discusses the recent Uniting to Combat Neglected Tropical Diseases…
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Collections New collection of articles explores the science, application, and regulation of genetically modified insects for disease control
Author: Renata Santillan The current issue of PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases presents a new collection of articles on the use of genetically…
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General Sanitation is Key in Controlling Worm Diseases
Diarrhea, abdominal pain, malaise, anemia, and delayed child development: these are the debilitating effects of one group of diseases, the soil-transmitted helminths…