World Health Day: Combating antimicrobial resistance
Today is World Health Day, an event held on the 7th April every year since 1950 to mark the founding of the World Health Organisation and an opportunity to draw worldwide attention to a subject of...
View ArticleThis Week in PLoS Medicine: Rotavirus vaccines in Brazil; Exercise for...
Four new articles were published this week in PLoS Medicine, including a Perspective on a research article. A time series analysis by Manish Patel and colleagues shows that the introduction of...
View ArticleWhy is Research Critical to Stop Tuberculosis?
Guest blogger Dr Christian Lienhardt discusses the International Roadmap for Tuberculosis Research a framework outlining priority areas for investment in TB research. With 8.8 million new cases and 1.4...
View ArticleAddressing TB in the Mines: Complementing Political Will with an Urgent Need...
Guest blogger Jonathan Smith from Yale University School of Public Health discusses the challenges of tackling South Africa’s “TB factories.” TB in the South African mining industry has recently seen...
View ArticleXpert MTB/RIF for those with HIV; the importance of considering equity
Anna Vassall from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine discusses a recently published analysis of the potential health and economic consequences of implementing Xpert MTB/RIF in southern...
View ArticleChildren with TB – Global Interest at Last
At last, tackling tuberculosis (TB) in children is on the international agenda. This year, for the first time, an estimate of the extent of TB in children was included in the Global Tuberculosis...
View ArticleWhat can we learn from disease stigma’s long history?
Sara Gorman from Harvard University takes a look at the history of infectious disease stigma. Although tremendous strides in fighting stigma and discrimination against people with HIV/AIDS have been...
View ArticlePLOS Pathogens Celebrates the Winners of the 2012 PLOS Pathogens Molecular...
PLOS Pathogens was well represented at the 2012 Annual Molecular Parasitology Meeting (MPM) Meeting last September in Woods Hole, MA. PLOS Pathogens Section Editor, Kami Kim, helped organize the...
View ArticleFamiliar Enemies in Conflict and TB
Charles Ssonko from Médecins Sans Frontières reflects on the challenges of treating TB in unstable settings. Amid the justified excitement surrounding the development of the first new drugs to treat TB...
View ArticleSeasonal Malaria Chemoprevention: Good News in a Year Marked by Malaria...
Estrella Lasry from Médecins Sans Frontières reflects on the roll out of seasonal malaria chemoprevention in Mali and Chad. In 2012, MSF projects in several countries saw an important increase in cases...
View ArticleThe Limits of Humanitarian Aid: MSF and TB in Somalia
Unni Karunakara and Jean-Christophe Dollé describe the challenges faced by Médecins Sans Frontières’ TB programme as the organisation withdrew from Somalia in response to increasing violence. On August...
View ArticleThis Week in PLOS Medicine: AIDS Treatment in Children, Influenza Vaccination...
This week PLOS Medicine publishes the following new articles: Using observational data collected in cohort studies in Southern Africa, Michael Schomaker and colleagues estimate the mortality associated...
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