This guest blog is from Nicole F. Masenior and Chris Beyrer, Senior Research Coordinator and Director respectively of the Center for Public…
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Policy Decision rendered on the Prostitution PledgeRead more
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: Health care during armed conflicts & GeneXpertRead more
With the close of the July issue of PLoS Medicine, we publish six new articles, including the monthly editorial. In this month’s…
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Conference news Treatment as prevention: we urgently need policy guidanceRead more
The International AIDS Society conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention in Rome has been hailed as a landmark conference for HIV…
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General HIV: why are so many mothers and children still dying?Read more
Last year we published an Editorial arguing that the time had come to integrate prevention and treatment of HIV into maternal and…
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Conference news HIV: Treatment is the new prevention – and prevention worksRead more
Prevention is the buzzword at the Sixth International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention(IAS 2011). Whether its the just-published…
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MSF Capreomycin shortage: symptom of a bigger problem in multidrug-resistant tuberculosisRead more
Guest post by Grania Brigden. Grania is the TB advisor to the MSF Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines. There is currently…
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General Energy Density, Portion Size, and Eating Occasions: the media responseRead more
At the end of June, PLoS Medicine published an obesity-related paper by Kiyah Duffey and Barry Popkin, which caused a big media…
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General This Week in PLoS Medicine: Clinic treatment of HIV; Pre-ART treatment; African First Aid MaterialsRead more
Three new articles on HIV treatment were published this week in PLoS Medicine, and an accompanying Health in Action article on the…
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General Aid access to Somalia: there must be no hidden agenda to humanitarianismRead more
In the past few days, al-Shabab, the armed faction that controls south and central Somalia, has lifted its ban on the delivery…
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Conference news African Conference on Sanitation MDG 19-21 July 2011Read more
AfricaSan 3, the Third African Conference on Hygiene and Sanitation, currently being held (19-21 July) in Kigali, Rwanda, is being attended by…
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Conference news The science of outcomes: how far have we come?Read more
UPDATE 1 AUGUST: The COMET website has now launched. Its database lists the outcomes standardisation efforts that are going on across clinical…
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General WHO guidance on household water treatment publishedRead more
Maggie Brown, MS, ELS, Senior Production Editor at PLoS continues her series of posts on water and sanitation. WHO has just announced…