This Week in PLOS Medicine: Plasmodium vivax; Gender & HIV; Point-of-care...
With the start of September, PLOS Medicine publishes three new articles: Ivo Mueller and colleagues examined the association of Southeast Asian ovalocytosis with Plasmodium vivax infection by...
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A selection of influential PLOS ONE papers on tropical medicine and malaria
For the XVIII International Congress for Tropical Medicine and Malaria Conference in Rio de Janeiro, PLOS ONE is highlighting eight recent articles. Since January 2011, PLOS ONE has published almost...
View ArticleComplacency Cannot be Tolerated: Challenges in Malaria Research 2012 Highlights
Guest bloggers Rosalind Howes and Katherine Battle report from this month’s Challenges in Malaria Research Conference in Basel, Switzerland. The fight against malaria has enjoyed unprecedented...
View ArticleThis Week in PLOS Medicine: Smoking licenses; Neonatal care; Liver function...
Five new articles published this week in PLOS Medicine, including a Debate series and a new Research Article with a related Perspective. In a PLOS Medicine Debate, Simon Chapman lays out a case for a...
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 ArticleThis Week in PLOS Medicine: Artemisinin resistance; Monitoring zoonoses;...
Three new articles published this week in PLOS Medicine, starting off our March issue: Francois Nosten and colleagues evaluate malaria prevalence and incidence in the mobile population on the Myanmar...
View ArticleIs Disease Eradication Always the Best Path?
Sara Gorman from Harvard University discusses the pitfalls of disease eradication efforts. There is no question that the eradication of smallpox, a devastating illness costing millions of lives, was...
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...
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World Malaria Day 2013: Invest in the Future: Defeat Malaria
Since World Malaria Day was first instituted in 2007 by World Health Organization Member States, great progress has been made in malaria prevention, detection and treatment. Even so, over half a...
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Why Measure Coverage of MNCH?
Dr. Lucy Chappell, Collection Editor of Measuring Coverage of Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health, explains what researchers of MNCH in High Income Country settings can learn from the Collection. In...
View ArticleThis Week in PLOS Medicine: Iron Supplements during Pregnancy; Male-Male...
This week PLOS Medicine publishes the following new articles: Compared to twice weekly iron supplements, daily iron supplements for pregnant women do not provide any benefits in birth weight or...
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Malaria, Tuberculosis Caused Death on the Ancient Nile
Southwest of Cairo, the Nile branches into a network of canals that feed Fayum, a fertile agricultural basin that was a center of civilization and royal pyramid-building for several centuries. The...
View ArticleThis Week in PLOS Medicine: Malaria in Pregnancy, Pre-clinical Animal...
This week PLOS Medicine publishes the following new articles: Malaria in pregnancy is responsible for the deaths of about 200,000 newborn babies and 10,000 women every year and can cause miscarriage...
View ArticleASAP Awards Finalists announced
Earlier this year, nominations opened for the Accelerating Science Awards Program (ASAP). Backed by major sponsors like Google, PLOS and the Wellcome Trust, and a number of other organisations, this...
View ArticleThis Week in PLOS Medicine: Insufficient Antimalarial Dosing in Children,...
This week PLOS Medicine publishes the following new articles: Antimalarial drug resistance has hampered malaria control programs for almost 60 years. A key factor in combating this threat is to ensure...
View Article@PLOSNTDs Dispatches from #TropMed14: Bill Gates & Ebola Travel Ban
Continuing coverage from the PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) community attending this week’s ASTMH meeting in New Orleans. [View the story “@PLOSNTDs Dispatches from #TropMed14: Bill Gates...
View ArticleDrugs for Malaria: Need to Overcome Resistance to Artemisinins and Eliminate...
In their second post honoring World Malaria Day, Kasturi Haldar, Editor-in-Chief of PLOS Pathogens, and Margaret Phillips comment on the challenges for drug development and the path to malaria control,...
View ArticleLAMP 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...
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#WorldMalariaDay: can nets and sprays keep the bugs away? | Your Say
0000-0002-8715-2896 #WorldMalariaDay: can nets and sprays keep the bugs away? Posted April 24, 2017 by Victoria Costello in Uncategorized post-info AddThis Sharing Buttons above By Abraar Karan MD,...
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Malaria Prevention: Tackling the Gaps in Reaching the Hardest-to-Reach
0000-0002-8715-2896 Malaria Prevention: Tackling the Gaps in Reaching the Hardest-to-Reach post-info AddThis Sharing Buttons above Estrella Lasry, Tropical Diseases Advisor at Médecins Sans...
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