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This Week in PLOS Medicine: Iron Supplements during Pregnancy; Male-Male Consensual Sex, Sexual Violence, & HIV in South Africa; & Malaria Surveillance

Posted June 18, 2013 by PLOS Medicine in General

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 improved infant growth, according to

A City of Joy in the midst of hell

Posted April 11, 2011 by Virginia Barbour in General

In 2009 we published a harrowing and compelling paper on the work done by the Panzi hospital in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which Margot Wallstrom, the UN’s special representative on sexual violence in conflict

This week in PLoS Medicine: Rape with extreme violence; Increasing access to surgery in Sub-Saharan Africa; Why is TB more common in men than in women?; and more!

Posted December 22, 2009 by Darcy Gill in General

Read the new papers published in PLoS Medicine this week, including a Health in Action piece that discusses rape with extreme violence (REV), a destructive and sadistic behavior systematically perpetrated by different armed groups in

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This Week in PLOS Medicine: Iron Supplements during Pregnancy; Male-Male Consensual Sex, Sexual Violence, & HIV in South Africa; & Malaria Surveillance

A City of Joy in the midst of hell

This week in PLoS Medicine: Rape with extreme violence; Increasing access to surgery in Sub-Saharan Africa; Why is TB more common in men than in women?; and more!