PLoS Medicine Collections
In order to highlight specific topics, from time to time PLoS Medicine gathers together collections of articles. A collection may be timed to coincide with an event, such as a high profile conference, or may simply aim to raise awareness of a topic with a wide audience. As with all of our content, all material within collections is published under a Creative Commons Attribution License; hence users can, with attribution, download, print, or reuse in any way either individual articles or entire collections.
2007
Poverty Collection
The Council of Science Editors has organized a Global Theme Issue on Poverty and Human Development on October 22, 2007. More than 200 science and health journals, including three PLoS journals, are participating by publishing new articles. We have also collected together related articles with a poverty theme from the archive of all the PLoS journals.
Grand Challenges Collection
In this special collection, four policy papers cover a range of ethical, social, and cultural issues related to the Grand Challenges in Global Health Initiative.
Tuberculosis Collection
A collection of articles from PLoS Medicine and other PLoS journals assembled in March 2007 on various aspects of tuberculosis host and pathogen biolgy, epidemiology, diagnosis, and control.
Influenza Collection
A collection of articles from PLoS Medicine and other PLoS journals, which covered various aspects of influenza biology and control, was put together in February 2007.
2006
Disease Mongering Collection
To mark the first academic meeting on disease mongering (the "selling of sickness" in order to promote drug sales), which was held in Newcastle, Australia in April 2006, and to help provoke and inform a response to the phenomenon, we commissioned a special theme issue.
Pediatrics Collection
A collection of research and magazine articles on adolescent and pediatric health was put together to coincide with the Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies in San Francisco in April 2006.
HIV-AIDS 2006 Collection
A collection of research and magazine articles on HIV and AIDS, published in 2005 and 2006, was put together to coincide with the XVI International AIDS conference in Toronto in August 2006.
Diabetes Collection
A collection of articles on Diabetes was brought together in September 2006 on the occasion of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes in Copenhagen. The collection included both research and magazine articles from PLoS Medicine and research articles from PLoS Biology.
Social Medicine Collection
Our October 2006 issue contained a special collection of eleven magazine articles and five research papers devoted entirely to social medicine. The collection featured many of the leaders in the field, including Paul Farmer, Arthur Kleinman, David Satcher, Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Dorothy Porter, and Leon Eisenberg.
2005
Tsunami collection
In order to revisit the health consequences of the Asian tsunami of December 2004 six months on, in we commissioned a collection of Magazine articles. We have subsequently updated this collection to include new research and additional essays of relevance.
HIV-AIDS 2005 Collection
A collection of research and magazine articles on HIV and AIDS, published in 2004 and 2005, was put together to coincide with the 3rd International AIDS Society conference on HIV Pathogenesis and Treatment in Rio de Janeiro in July 2005.
Malaria collection
To mark the Fourth Pan-African Conference of the Multilateral Initiative on Malaria in November 2005 in Yaoundé, Cameroon, four new articles on malaria were collected together with previously published articles, including six from other PLoS journals.