The health consequences of human trafficking and exploitation are sufficiently prevalent and damaging that they comprise a public health problem of global magnitude. This PLOS Collection offers…
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Medicine & Health Trafficking, Exploitation and Health
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Medicine & Health Populations HRSA Serves
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is the primary U.S. federal agency for improving health care through its 90-plus programs and more than 3000 grantees to people who are…
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Medicine & Health IWANN Special Collection 2019: Deep Learning Models in Healthcare and Biomedicine
When it comes to recent computational support for medical diagnosis from images or sequences, it is more and more intensively resorted to deep learning architectures. The performance and insights that…
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Medicine & Health Project SOAR: robust evidence to improve the global HIV response
Recent advances in the global HIV response hold great promise for ending the epidemic. Project SOAR implementation science research generates insights to inform and improve the provision of…
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Medicine & Health Regulatory Harmonization Collection
While regulation of medicines is a key pillar of any health system assuring access to quality medicines, an unoptimized regulatory system is a barrier to access. Over the last 8 years the East African…
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Medicine & Health The BIRTH Special Collection
In 2014, the EU funded a COST Action that brought together over 120 scientists, practitioners, activists and policy makers from 34 countries, to advance research and practice in an area of great…
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Medicine & Health Advances in Clinical Trial Design for Development of New Treatments for Tuberculosis
With recent opportunities to test combinations of new and repurposed drugs for the treatment of TB, new questions arise for optimal clinical trial design. To address these, in March 2018 WHO organized…
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Medicine & Health Economic Efficiency of HIV Services
In order to maximize the value for money for HIV services and increase efficiency without sacrificing quality, robust and up-to-date data on costs, efficiency and its determinants are needed…
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Medicine & Health Economic Cases for NCD Prevention and Control: A Global Perspective
Economic Cases for NCD Prevention and Control expands the evidence base on the economic burden of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and the impact of NCD prevention and control programs globally. This…
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Medicine & Health DeWorm3
Soil-transmitted helminths infect an estimated 1.45 billion people globally. The current WHO strategy for controlling STH is based on controlling morbidity via mass drug administration of medications…