Millennium Development Goal 4 calls for a reduction of two-thirds in the under-5 mortality rate between 1990 and 2015. Reliable estimates of child mortality are critical to the monitoring of progress…
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Medicine & Health Child Mortality Estimation MethodsView Collection
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Medicine & Health Focus on Delivery & Scale: Achieving HIV Impact with Sex WorkersView Collection
The burden of HIV is heavily disproportionate in sex workers, where the high rates of partner change and their vulnerability increase the likelihood of sexual transmitted infections. This collection…
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Medicine & Health Monitoring Universal Health CoverageView Collection
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…
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Biology & Life Sciences The Genome Network Project/FANTOM3 CollectionView Collection
The Genome Network Project/FANTOM3 collection features articles describing findings that redefine the landscape of the mammalian transcriptome by introducing an extensive collection of novel cDNAs and…
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Computer & Information Sciences Translational BioinformaticsView Collection
'Translational Bioinformatics' is a collection of articles which reads as a "book" to be used as a reference or tutorial for a graduate level introductory course on the science of…
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Biology & Life Sciences The Promise of Plant Translational ResearchView Collection
As the world's population continues to expand, and as water resources come under increasing pressure and pathogens that cause devastating crop losses continue to spread, there is a pressing need for…
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Biology & Life Sciences The Mice Drawer System Experiment & the Space Endurance Record-Breaking MiceView Collection
The ability to live for long periods in the absence of normal gravity requires comprehensive understanding of structural and functional changes that occur in the bodies of humans and other mammals…
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Medicine & Health Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention: The Cost, Impact, and Challenges of Accelerated Scale-UpView Collection
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 Measuring Coverage in Maternal, Newborn, and Child HealthView Collection
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 Maternal Health Task Force – Year 2: Maternal Health is Women’s HealthView Collection
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…