Collection Type: Special Issues
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Medicine & Health COVID-19 Pandemic and Global Mental HealthView Collection
In this PLOS Medicine Special Issue, we present a fascinating array of research papers which provide insights into various facets of mental health during the pandemic. Key themes include increases in…
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Medicine & Health Global Child Health: From Birth to Adolescence and BeyondView Collection
In 2000, the UN adopted the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which were intended to address key determinants of human health and welfare, including poverty, hunger, and disease. One of the MDGs…
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Biology & Life Sciences Epidemics on the move: climate change and infectious diseaseView Collection
Public health and the welfare of the ecosystems that sustain us depend on understanding how global climate change will affect the dynamics and distribution of pathogens and their plant and animal…
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Medicine & Health HRSA HIV/AIDS BureauView Collection
This Special Collection from the Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) HIV/AIDS Bureau and its partners, highlights the dynamic role of HRSA's Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program…
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Medicine & Health StarwormsView Collection
The Starworms (STop Anthelminthic Resistant WORMS) project aims to strengthen the monitoring and surveillance of drug efficacy and anthelmintic resistance in soil-transmitted helminth control…
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collection Maternal and Child Health & NutritionView Collection
In many parts of the world maternal and child health outcomes are increasingly impacted by indirect causes, many of which are related to nutrition. Women with diabetes, anemia or who are overweight…
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Research Analysis & Policy The Missing Pieces: A Collection of Negative, Null and Inconclusive ResultsView Collection
The publication of negative, null and inconclusive results is important to provide scientists with balanced information and avoid the duplication of efforts testing similar hypotheses, which waste…
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Medicine & Health Trafficking, Exploitation and HealthView Collection
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 Populations HRSA ServesView Collection
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…