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  • Earth & Environment A PLOS Collection Safe and Sustainable Water in Cities
    Published October 31, 2023 Special Issues

    Over the next four decades, virtually all global population growth will occur in cities. Urbanization results from natural population increases among city dwellers, rural-to-urban migration, and…

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  • Medicine & Health A PLOS Collection Bacterial Antimicrobial Resistance: Surveillance and Prevention
    Published July 12, 2023 Special Issues
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  • Medicine & Health A PLOS Collection COVID-19 Pandemic and Global Mental Health
    Published April 3, 2023 Special Issues

    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 A PLOS Collection Global Child Health: From Birth to Adolescence and Beyond
    Published September 28, 2021 Special Issues

    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 A PLOS Collection Epidemics on the move: climate change and infectious disease
    Published November 20, 2020 Special Issues

    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 A PLOS Collection HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau
    Published October 2, 2020 Partnered Collections, Special Issues

    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 A PLOS Collection Starworms
    Published September 30, 2020 Partnered Collections, Special Issues

    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 A PLOS Collection Maternal and Child Health & Nutrition
    Published September 24, 2020 Special Issues

    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 A PLOS Collection The Missing Pieces: A Collection of Negative, Null and Inconclusive Results
    Published September 23, 2020 Partnered Collections, Special Issues

    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 A PLOS Collection Trafficking, Exploitation and Health
    Published September 23, 2020 Partnered Collections, Special Issues

    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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