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This collection features some of the many resources available to facilitate the rigorous reporting of scientific studies, and to improve the presentation and evaluation of published studies.</p></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <hr> <table class="table-basic"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width:120px"><img alt="" class="img-left" style="font-size:13px; line-height:18px" src="/plosmedicine/indirect/headshot_643246bde66b3aac14135fa5bb23c5a1afaf21b5fb9938d98db7ea12365915b9"></td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> <h3><a href="http://collections.plos.org/uhc2014">Monitoring Universal Health Coverage</a></h3> <p>13 country case studies, five technical reviews and an overview describe a global framework for monitoring progress towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC) conducted by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the World Bank Group.</p></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <hr> <table class="table-basic"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width:120px"><img alt="" class="img-left" style="font-size:13px; line-height:18px" src="/plosmedicine/indirect/headshot_8ee8705f3b8f0d1bb5087149668fbbf58206da439c35c4851255ded9bc026340"></td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> <h3><a href="http://collections.plos.org/achieving-hiv-impact">Focus on Delivery and Scale: Achieving HIV Impact with Sex Workers</a></h3> <p>Up-to-date analyses on both the influence of direct and indirect intervention programmes aimed at interrupting the high-incidence of HIV infection amongst sex workers.</p></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <hr> <table class="table-basic"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width:120px"><img alt="" class="img-left" style="font-size:13px; line-height:18px" src="/plosmedicine/indirect/headshot_5875b9df45a57a613476da3dac2b2a3815a7245d1c63d8fda0520d5da59beb09"></td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> <h3><a href="http://collections.plos.org/vmmc2014">Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention: Improving Quality, Efficiency, Cost Effectiveness, and Demand for Services during an Accelerated Scale-up</a></h3> <p>This collection examines lessons learned from the scaled-up VMMC program since 2008.</p></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <hr> <table class="table-basic"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width:120px"><img alt="" class="img-left" style="font-size:13px; line-height:18px" src="/plosmedicine/indirect/headshot_e7dea1cd1c17c78647889e8e87fdf076d8dcc05aba7b23b56d1305b7337a9924"></td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> <h3><a href="http://collections.plos.org/uhc2014">Pediatric Medicine</a></h3> <p>In a commitment to increasing the evidence base for improving child health, PLOS journals publish high-quality, Open Access research and commentary on Pediatric Medicine, ensuring this crucial evidence is freely available to read and use throughout the world without restriction.</p></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <hr> <table class="table-basic"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width:120px"><img alt="" class="img-left" style="font-size:13px; line-height:18px" src="/plosmedicine/indirect/headshot_c8799194a6838d84dbdfcdebe3440f022d980ac4d331c2534b3270b54658589d"></td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> <h3><a href="http://collections.plos.org/measuring-coverage-in-mnch">Measuring Coverage in Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health</a></h3> <p>Innovative assessments of the validity of measuring population coverage for interventions in this field, exploring issues around household surveys, assessment of health inequalities, consideration of survey error, and the generation of indicators for global monitoring.</p></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <hr> <table class="table-basic"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width:120px"><img alt="" class="img-left" style="font-size:13px; line-height:18px" src="/plosmedicine/indirect/headshot_1c3aaf53f45299bdec9ee21a331ed9313168100fef4a752a25af658ae16e03f3"></td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> <h3><a href="http://collections.plos.org/cme">Child Mortality Estimation Methods</a></h3> <p>In this collection of research articles and reviews the independent Technical Advisory Group (TAG) to the UN IGME introduces the group's methodological innovations in estimating child mortality.</p></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <hr> <table class="table-basic"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width:120px"><img alt="" class="img-left" style="font-size:13px; line-height:18px" src="/plosmedicine/indirect/headshot_55835ef71adcb2b1a4efe2a663307de69aa11faa2f2194223081481c9bbe5f71"></td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> <h3><a href="http://collections.plos.org/blue-marble-health">Blue Marble Health: the mismatch between national wealth and population health</a></h3> <p>"Blue marble health" is a recent concept that recognizes a paradoxical disease burden – particularly the burden of NTDs – among poor people living in G20 and other wealthier countries.</p></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <hr> <table class="table-basic"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width:120px"><img alt="" class="img-left" style="font-size:13px; line-height:18px" src="/plosmedicine/indirect/headshot_98804e8a907d14121fb1d1bb226bab8d8069c56985080c2fd6521cfc1333d9c1"></td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> <h3><a href="http://collections.plos.org/dndi">PLOS and DNDi: A Decade of Open Access and NTD R&D</a></h3> <p>This collection showcases some of the most important papers published on R&D of drugs for neglected tropical diseases over the last decade – including papers from <em>PLOS Medicine</em>, <em>PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases</em> and <em>PLOS ONE</em>.</p></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <hr> <table class="table-basic"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width:120px"><img alt="" class="img-left" style="font-size:13px; line-height:18px" src="/plosmedicine/indirect/headshot_20ade0e4ca2d0183efc09713efdb7cafd0b4ecb019a31b03e06116177eb1acab"></td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> <h3><a href="http://collections.plos.org/maternal-health-year2">MHTF Year Three: Integrating Health Care to Meet the Needs of the Mother–Infant Pair</a></h3> <p>Each year the PLOS Maternal Health Task Force Project had a different focus. In Year Three, the theme was "Integrating Health Care to Meet the Needs of the Mother–Infant Pair.”</p></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <hr> <table class="table-basic"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width:120px"><img alt="" class="img-left" style="font-size:13px; line-height:18px" src="/plosmedicine/indirect/headshot_3d78cf2d2fa8cac5ce72c0babccfcbca4b47aba2f6853af6198bcc3e0d38b506"></td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> <h3><a href="http://collections.plos.org/maternal-health-year2">MHTF Year Two: Maternal Health is Women’s Health</a></h3> <p>Each year the PLOS Maternal Health Task Force Project had a different focus. In Year Two, the theme was "Maternal Health is Women’s Health.”</p></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <hr> <table class="table-basic"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width:120px"><img alt="" class="img-left" style="font-size:13px; line-height:18px" src="/plosmedicine/indirect/headshot_3f8733340891e81c28e04454272151116143dc954c7a525c699438a2c6a8c42c"></td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> <h3><a href="http://collections.plos.org/maternal-health-year1">MHTF Year One: Quality of Maternal Health Care</a></h3> <p>Each year the PLOS Maternal Health Task Force Project had a different focus. In Year One, the theme was "quality of maternal health care.”</p></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <hr> <table class="table-basic"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width:120px"><img alt="" class="img-left" style="font-size:13px; line-height:18px" src="/plosmedicine/indirect/headshot_93a90f6c813d97e2c05eae73bcb6c028c3941d4bfd46f9686a3c240e2e024211"></td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> <h3><a href="http://collections.plos.org/tasp2012" style="background: transparent;">Investigating the Impact of Treatment on New HIV Infections</a></h3> <p>In November 2011 the HIV Modelling Consortium held a meeting on the cross-cutting issues of the impact of new scientific findings about HIV treatment preventing new infections. The group considered the feasibility of interventions, potential epidemiological impact, affordability and community trials.</p></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <hr> <table class="table-basic"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width:120px"><img alt="" class="img-left" style="font-size:13px; line-height:18px" src="/plosmedicine/indirect/headshot_967fbccae0df6cbc0d1b0b74ea124835d5e12c2e7da0e35f15e43d3d39bf7272"></td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> <h3><a href="http://collections.plos.org/world-health-report" style="background: transparent;">World Health Report 2012: No Health Without Research</a></h3> <p>This collection's theme is oriented around the fact that decisions on healthcare are still made without a solid grounding in research evidence, and an impetus is required for this state of affairs to change.</p></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <hr> <table class="table-basic"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width:120px"><img alt="" class="img-left" style="font-size:13px; line-height:18px" src="/plosmedicine/indirect/headshot_1fb99cbe2eab0260ff9b340d76c01a56d1702623e02b4d0d431243281fe4466a"></td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> <h3><a href="http://collections.plos.org/big-food" style="background: transparent;">Big Food</a></h3> <p>A multi-disciplinary approach, including critical perspectives from around the world, that examines and stimulates debate about the activities and influence of the food industry in global health.</p></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <hr> <table class="table-basic"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width:120px"><img alt="" class="img-left" style="font-size:13px; line-height:18px" src="/plosmedicine/indirect/headshot_67cdec8bd5a61ebcbcf9e006a5439bb62274975c4043832611ee0043c37bbd4d"></td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> <h3><a href="http://collections.plos.org/vmmc2011" style="background: transparent;">Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention: The Cost, Impact, and Challenges of Accelerated Scale-Up in Southern and Eastern Africa</a></h3> <p>Can scaling up VMMC for HIV prevention Africa help prevent HIV as well as leading to substantial cost savings for countries as a result of averted treatment and care costs?</p></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <hr> <table class="table-basic"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width:120px"><img alt="" class="img-left" style="font-size:13px; line-height:18px" src="/plosmedicine/indirect/headshot_3350a670b64c613350d1f91ac7b02873270e1867f8f45d0f7e0fd2f2cafbeaed"></td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> <h3><a href="http://collections.plos.org/migration" style="background: transparent;">Migration & Health</a></h3> <p>Policies to protect migrants and global health have so far been hampered by inadequate policy attention and poor international coordination – <em>PLOS Medicine</em> investigate in this six-part series.</p></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <hr> <table class="table-basic"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width:120px"><img alt="" class="img-left" style="font-size:13px; line-height:18px" src="/plosmedicine/indirect/headshot_e3ba41f3afd8dd21970be68b8c9afb1ca2447ab5ddd901ab5c8c69270b30a2e0"></td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> <h3><a href="http://collections.plos.org/malera" style="background: transparent;">malERA – a research agenda for malaria eradication</a></h3> <p>The Malaria Eradication Research Agenda (malERA) initiative complements existing research agendas aimed at reducing the global burden of  malaria by malaria control, with a set of research and development priorities that identify knowledge gaps and tools needed for worldwide eradication of malaria. </p></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <hr> <table class="table-basic"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width:120px"><img alt="" class="img-left" style="font-size:13px; line-height:18px" src="/plosmedicine/indirect/headshot_dc8301575b85fecd95096ada747e4eab7342931848e4b5c9bbd0b394b918f0af"></td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> <h3><a href="http://collections.plos.org/global-health-estimates">Global Health Estimates</a></h3> <p>Six articles from a series of experts provide insights and opinion on what estimates of global health indicators mean for global health and how to move forward with better data, measurement, coordination, and leadership.</p></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <hr> <table class="table-basic"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width:120px"><img alt="" class="img-left" style="font-size:13px; line-height:18px" src="/plosmedicine/indirect/headshot_8652d9fe9ed279563ea5984f7bb8af3a36cec80c82a4549ac852f795a6759e6c"></td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> <h3><a href="http://collections.plos.org/water-and-sanitation">Water and Sanitation</a></h3> <p>The active involvement of health professionals in hygiene, sanitation, and water supply is crucial to accelerating and consolidating progress for health – in November 2010, <em>PLOS Medicine</em> published a four-part series on this topic.</p></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <hr> <table class="table-basic"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width:120px"><img alt="" class="img-left" style="font-size:13px; line-height:18px" src="/plosmedicine/indirect/headshot_2ee896be5259fd03ccfe459a863a07860042b80d1a152304ab4fd1ac61210cd3"></td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> <h3><a href="http://collections.plos.org/drug-companies-and-human-rights" style="background: transparent;">Are Drug Companies Living Up to Their Human Rights Responsibilities?</a></h3> <p>The <em>PLOS Medicine</em> Debate asks whether drug companies are living up to their human rights responsibilities.</p></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <hr> <table class="table-basic"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width:120px"><img alt="" class="img-left" style="font-size:13px; line-height:18px" src="/plosmedicine/indirect/headshot_f53a4d2e08d2f4c810fa88e106ff2c65e8ac5d285378499c76189d7ef5952ec9"></td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> <h3><a href="http://collections.plos.org/evaluating-ehealth" style="background: transparent;">Evaluating eHealth Collection</a></h3> <p>A three part series examining the emergence of eHealth – the use of electronic tools in delivering health care – and its benefits and challenges worldwide.</p></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <hr> <table class="table-basic"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width:120px"><img alt="" class="img-left" style="font-size:13px; line-height:18px" src="/plosmedicine/indirect/headshot_653eea2e1aa170b03a6ffafc8d4d3678f75cc96e17a91392f5381e5ae74d42e4"></td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> <h3><a href="http://collections.plos.org/tsunami">Health Consequences of the Asian Tsunami</a></h3> <p>In order to revisit the health consequences of the Asian tsunami of December 2004 six months on, <em>PLOS Medicine</em> commissioned a collection, published in April 2005 and later updated with new research.</p></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <hr> <table class="table-basic"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width:120px"><img alt="" class="img-left" style="font-size:13px; line-height:18px" src="/plosmedicine/indirect/headshot_b6563f1e87a45cede913fe6a3fae677b85bff20a5bd338ed3f7981b3e801f0b5"></td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> <h3><a href="http://collections.plos.org/social-medicine">Social Medicine in the 21st Century</a></h3> <p>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.</p></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <hr> <table class="table-basic"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width:120px"><img alt="" class="img-left" style="font-size:13px; line-height:18px" src="/plosmedicine/indirect/headshot_be558f3f71501a68e8142c4b89bc540a96ec2710411a1651027617debb5b7ca8"></td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> <h3><a href="http://collections.plos.org/grand-challenges">Grand Challenges in Global Health</a></h3> <p>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.</p></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <hr> <table class="table-basic"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width:120px"><img alt="" class="img-left" style="font-size:13px; line-height:18px" src="/plosmedicine/indirect/headshot_c2a4f6c675769e9caa4443e40892dd1a722bff27f765fab19c7609170eb659d1"></td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> <h3><a href="http://collections.plos.org/poverty">Poverty</a></h3> <p>The Council of Science Editors organized a Global Theme Issue on Poverty and Human Development on October 22, 2007. More than 200 science and health journals, including <em>PLOS Medicine</em>, <em>PLOS Biology</em>, and <em>PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases</em>, participated by publishing new articles.</p></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <hr> <table class="table-basic"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width:120px"><img alt="" class="img-left" style="font-size:13px; line-height:18px" src="/plosmedicine/indirect/headshot_23c7760a3c469c6533328044ea87445f87df9f5f65bce56eb63b7d4a5fe1114b"></td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> <h3><a href="http://collections.plos.org/mental-health-in-lmics">Mental Health in Low- and Middle-Income Countries</a></h3> <p>Between October 2009 and February 2010 <em>PLOS Medicine</em> published a seven part series of articles proposing "packages of care" for mental, neurological, and substance-use disorders in low- and middle-income countries</p></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <hr> <table class="table-basic"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width:120px"><img alt="" class="img-left" style="font-size:13px; line-height:18px" src="/plosmedicine/indirect/headshot_a501d17f8f7d195f533487295f0b56e7df1cee39c025810b77575f3fc288722a"></td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> <h3><a href="http://collections.plos.org/global-health-diplomacy%E2%80%8B">Global Health Diplomacy</a></h3> <p>A six-part series on global health diplomacy, published by <em>PLOS Medicine</em> in April 2010.</p></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <hr> <table class="table-basic"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width:120px"><img alt="" class="img-left" style="font-size:13px; line-height:18px" src="/plosmedicine/indirect/headshot_62824644608366d83442613b5079aca9989a3ef19932d4d89cb307496b0aed2b"></td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> <h3><a href="http://collections.plos.org/subsaharan-mnc" style="background: transparent;">Sub-Saharan Africa's Mothers, Newborns, and Children</a></h3> <p>A series of articles on maternal, newborn, and child health in sub-Saharan Africa, providing a snapshot of the health and causes of death among the region's mothers and children, reviews evidence-based solutions, and identifies high-impact opportunities for reducing maternal and child mortality.</p></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <hr> <table class="table-basic"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width:120px"><img alt="" class="img-left" style="font-size:13px; line-height:18px" src="/plosmedicine/indirect/headshot_f8572058ee763c4e880895f61adf5dfc9fcc6881fe5a440fe807317b7c9f15fb"></td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> <h3><a href="http://collections.plos.org/disease-mongering" style="background: transparent;">Disease Mongering</a></h3> <p>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, <em>PLOS Medicine</em> commissioned a special theme issue</p></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <hr> <table class="table-basic"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width:120px"><img alt="" class="img-left" style="font-size:13px; line-height:18px" src="/plosmedicine/indirect/headshot_a6f57c5f28950e46102c675e75eabd267fb271074e0589ab974d67c2548450eb"></td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> <h3><a href="http://collections.plos.org/global-health-institutions">The Changing Nature of Global Health Institutions</a></h3> <p>A four-part series from <em style="font-family:helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px; line-height:18px">PLOS Medicine</em> examining the ways in which global health institutions and arrangements are changing and evolving.</p></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <hr> <table class="table-basic"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width:120px"><img alt="" class="img-left" style="font-size:13px; line-height:18px" src="/plosmedicine/indirect/headshot_17240fbfe2b720c8e13107663ec2402ddc2331d98c0a6e41c670d77c1db37d7d"></td> <td style="vertical-align:top"> <h3><a href="http://collections.plos.org/ghostwriting" style="background: transparent;">Ghostwriting</a></h3> <p>Ghostwriting misrepresents authorship credit and accountability and is therefore considered unethical, dishonest, and a threat to the integrity of the medical literature.This collection gathers together research and commentary from PLOS journals on the topic of ghostwriting.</p></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <hr> </div> </article> </div><script defer src="/resource/js/components/scroll.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script defer src="/resource/js/components/floating_nav.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script defer src="/resource/js/pages/site_content.js" type="text/javascript"></script> </main> <footer id="pageftr"> <div class="row"> <div class="block x-small"> <ul class="nav nav-secondary"> <li class="ftr-header"><a href="https://plos.org/publications/journals/">Publications</a></li> <li><a href="/plosbiology/" id="ftr-bio">PLOS Biology</a></li> <li><a href="/climate/" id="ftr-climate">PLOS Climate</a></li> <li><a href="/complexsystems/" id="ftr-complex-systems">PLOS Complex Systems</a></li> <li><a href="/ploscompbiol/" id="ftr-compbio">PLOS Computational Biology</a></li> <li><a href="/digitalhealth/" id="ftr-digitalhealth">PLOS Digital Health</a></li> <li><a href="/plosgenetics/" id="ftr-gen">PLOS Genetics</a></li> <li><a href="/globalpublichealth/" id="ftr-globalpublichealth">PLOS Global Public Health</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="block x-small"> <ul class="nav nav-secondary"> <li class="ftr-header"> </li> <li><a href="/plosmedicine/" id="ftr-med">PLOS Medicine</a></li> <li><a href="/mentalhealth/" id="ftr-mental-health">PLOS Mental Health</a></li> <li><a href="/plosntds/" id="ftr-ntds">PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases</a></li> <li><a href="/plosone/" id="ftr-one">PLOS ONE</a></li> <li><a href="/plospathogens/" id="ftr-path">PLOS Pathogens</a></li> <li><a href="/sustainabilitytransformation/" id="ftr-sustainabilitytransformation">PLOS Sustainability and Transformation</a></li> <li><a href="/water/" id="ftr-water">PLOS Water</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="block xx-small"> <ul class="nav nav-tertiary"> <li> <a href="https://plos.org" id="ftr-home">Home</a> </li> <li> <a href="https://blogs.plos.org" id="ftr-blog">Blogs</a> </li> <li> <a href="https://collections.plos.org/" id="ftr-collections">Collections</a> </li> <li> <a href="mailto:webmaster@plos.org" id="ftr-feedback">Give feedback</a> </li> <li> <a href="/plosmedicine/lockss-manifest" id="ftr-lockss">LOCKSS</a> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="block xx-small"> <ul class="nav nav-primary"> <li><a href="https://plos.org/privacy-policy" id="ftr-privacy">Privacy Policy</a></li> <li><a href="https://plos.org/terms-of-use" id="ftr-terms">Terms of Use</a></li> <li><a href="https://plos.org/advertise/" id="ftr-advertise">Advertise</a></li> <li><a href="https://plos.org/media-inquiries" id="ftr-media">Media Inquiries</a></li> <li><a href="https://plos.org/contact" id="ftr-contact">Contact</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <p> <img src="/resource/img/logo-plos-footer.png" alt="PLOS" class="logo-footer"/> <span class="footer-non-profit-statement">PLOS is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation, #C2354500, based in San Francisco, California, US</span> </p> <div class="block"> </div> </div> <script src="/resource/js/global.js" type="text/javascript"></script> </footer> </body> </html>