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Do No Harm: How a US-Led Free Trade Agreement Threatens the Prospects for an AIDS-Free Generation

By Médecins Sans Frontières
Posted: August 7, 2012

Category: AIDS2012, MSF | Tagged antiretroviral treatment, developing world, global burden of disease, global health, health costs, health policy, HIV, HIV/AIDS, MSF, pharmaceutical industry, Policy | 5 Comments

Getting a gender agenda into HIV/AIDS research

By Emma Veitch
Posted: July 25, 2012

Category: AIDS2012, Conference news, Policy, Public | Tagged antiretroviral treatment, global burden of disease, HIV, HIV/AIDS, Policy, reporting | 1 Comment

Should Deworming Policies in the Developing World be Reconsidered?

By PLOS Medicine
Posted: July 18, 2012

Category: General, Neglected Diseases, Policy | Tagged Africa, developing world, global health, neglected tropical diseases, Policy, systematic reviews | 12 Comments

Open Access and HIFA2015 – where next?

By Virginia Barbour
Posted: April 24, 2012

Category: Access, General, Open Access | Tagged developing world, global health, health information, medical literature, open access, Policy | 5 Comments

Why Do We Create Clinical Practice Guidelines?

By PLOS Guest Blogger
Posted: April 2, 2012

Category: Access, General | Tagged health information, medical literature, open access, Policy | Leave a comment

Sanitation is Key in Controlling Worm Diseases

By Maggie Brown, MS, ELS
Posted: January 27, 2012

Category: Authors, General, Neglected Diseases, Public | Tagged global health, neglected tropical diseases, Policy, sanitation | 1 Comment

This Week in PLoS Medicine: Sanitation & infection; adult mortality in Japan; Ghostwriting in the courts

By Michael Morris
Posted: January 24, 2012

Category: PLoS Medicine Week by Week | Tagged Ghostwriting, high blood pressure, mortality, noncommunicable diseases, Policy, research ethics, sanitation, smoking, tobacco, Water and Sanitation | Leave a comment

Is funding into Neglected Diseases being misdirected?

By Virginia Barbour
Posted: February 17, 2011

Category: General, Neglected Diseases, Policy | Tagged developing world, global burden of disease, HIV/AIDS, neglected tropical diseases, pharmaceutical industry, Policy | 2 Comments

Emergency Medicine Australasia no longer accepting drug company advertising

By Virginia Barbour
Posted: February 7, 2011

Category: General | Tagged medical literature, pharmaceutical industry, Policy | Leave a comment

Withdrawal of journal access is a wake-up call for researchers in the developing world

By PLOS Guest Blogger
Posted: January 17, 2011

Category: Access, General | Tagged developing world, HINARI, open access, Policy | 2 Comments

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