The Signaling Pathways Project is a multi-omics knowledgebase based upon public, manually curated transcriptomic and cistromic (ChIP-Seq) datasets involving genetic and small molecule manipulations of…
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Medicine & Health malERA – An updated research agenda for malaria elimination and eradication
‘malERA Refresh’ is a forward-looking research and development agenda that accelerates progress towards malaria elimination and global eradication. The malERA Refresh special collection…
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Medicine & Health malERA – A Research Agenda for Malaria Eradication
The Malaria Eradication Research Agenda (malERA) initiative complements existing research agendas, which are primarily aimed at reducing the global burden of morbidity and mortality due to malaria by…
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Biology & Life Sciences The Global Burden of Norovirus & Prospects for Vaccine Development
Each year, norovirus causes over 200,000 deaths and a global economic burden of more than $60 billion. A highly contagious virus that most people will contract 5 times in their lifetime, the most…
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Medicine & Health Blue Marble Health: the mismatch between national wealth and population health
'Blue marble health' is a recent concept that recognizes a paradoxical disease burden among poor people living in G20 and other wealthier countries. Socioeconomic disparities caused by income…
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Medicine & Health Maternal Health Task Force Year 3: Integrating Health Care to Meet the Needs of the Mother-Infant Pair
The theme of the Year 3 Collection was chosen with the aim of strengthening the evidence for approaches to providing integrated care, from preconception; through pregnancy, childbirth and the…
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Medicine & Health Maternal Health Task Force – Year 2: Maternal Health is Women’s Health
The theme, “Maternal health is women's health”, was created to highlight the importance of considering maternal health in the context of women's health throughout their lifespans. While…
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Medicine & Health Maternal Health Task Force Year 1: Quality of Maternal Health Care
While the coverage and reach of maternal health services have increased dramatically in many countries around the world, the quality of those services (both institutional and at the community level…
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Medicine & Health Measuring Coverage in Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health
This collection presents innovative assessments of the validity of measuring population coverage for interventions in this field. Coverage indicators are widely used to assess whether interventions…
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Medicine & Health Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention: The Cost, Impact, and Challenges of Accelerated Scale-Up
This collection of articles published in PLOS, in conjunction with the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the United States President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)…
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Medicine & Health Monitoring Universal Health Coverage
This collection presents a global framework for monitoring progress towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC) conducted by the World Health Organisation and the World Bank Group. UHC is defined as…