Category Archives: Neglected Diseases
Combatting Neglected Tropical Diseases: Much Progress, but Millions of Neglected Patients Lack Access to Care
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inZika Emergency Puts Open Data Policies to the Test
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inAdiós, River Blindness: The journey from drug discovery to elimination
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inUpdate to Blue Marble Health Collection
This week sees a major update to the PLOS Collection “Blue Marble Health: the mismatch between national wealth and population health” with the addition of 50 new papers, including two new editorials published today in PLOS Medicine and PLOS Neglected … Continue reading
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inLAMP Diagnostics: The key to malaria elimination?
By Patrick McCreesh Malaria elimination is possible within a generation. But controlling malaria and eliminating malaria are different, and each pose certain challenges. Overcoming the unique challenges of malaria elimination is essential to meeting this goal, and the barriers presented … Continue reading
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Training the Next Generation of Scientists from Disease Endemic Countries Should be a High Priority in Disease Elimination Efforts
Serap Aksoy, co-Editor in Chief of PLOS NTDs, comments on the importance of training young scientists in the Tropical Infectious Disease community. There is a lot of excitement in the NTD community around the “E” words. After the many investments made by … Continue reading
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inNeglected Tropical Diseases: Challenges for the Post-2015 Development Era
This article is being cross-listed with the Harvard graduate student publication Signal to Noise, Special Edition on Infectious Disease. Health equity is based on the idea that all lives, anywhere in the world, have equal value. Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) are … Continue reading
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inMillennium Development Goal 6: Measuring Progress
One of the most dramatic international responses to the Millennium Development Goals launched by then United Nations Secretary Kofi Annan in 2000 has been the global public health community’s response to MDG 6 “To combat AIDS, malaria and other diseases” [1]. …
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inThe Blue Marble Health Collection: Redrawing Boundaries that Disease has Already Crossed
Peter J. Hotez, Co-Editor-in-Chief of PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, and Larry Peiperl, Chief Editor of PLOS Medicine, on a new PLOS Collection that highlights a shift in current thinking about global health.
This week PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases and PLOS Medicine…
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