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- 1From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedBackground: HIV infection rates are increasing among marginalized women in Ontario, Canada. HIV-related stigma, a principal factor contributing to the global HIV epidemic, interacts with structural inequities such as...
- 2From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedSince the World Health Organization and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS recommended implementation of medical male circumcision (MC) as part of HIV prevention in areas with low MC and high HIV prevalence...
- 3From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedBackground: The FTO gene harbors the strongest known susceptibility locus for obesity. While many individual studies have suggested that physical activity (PA) may attenuate the effect of FTO on obesity risk, other...
- 4From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Xpert MTB/RIF (Xpert) is a promising new rapid diagnostic technology for tuberculosis (TB) that has characteristics that suggest large-scale roll-out. However, because the test is expensive, there are...
- 5From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedGlobalization has opened access to distant regions of the world and increased awareness of global health disparities [1-3]. This heightened awareness, coupled with the rapid expansion of treatment to over 5 million...
- 6From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedThe government of Tanzania has adopted voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) as an important component of its national HIV prevention strategy and is scaling up VMMC in eight regions nationwide, with the goal of...
- 7From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedBackground: The global HIV prevention community is implementing voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) programs across eastern and southern Africa, with a goal of reaching 80% coverage in adult males by 2015....
- 8From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedAn impressively large meta-analysis in this issue of PLoS Medicine shows that physical activity modifies the effect of a common genetic trait on body mass. It was already known that certain variants of the "fat mass and...
- 9From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedBackground: It is uncertain to what extent oral supplementation with zinc can reduce episodes of malaria in endemic areas. Protection may depend on other nutrients. We measured the effect of supplementation with zinc...
- 10From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Following confirmation of the effectiveness of voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) for HIV prevention, the World Health Organization and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS issued...
- 11From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Antiretrovirals have substantial promise for HIV-1 prevention, either as antiretroviral treatment (ART) for HIV-1-infected persons to reduce infectiousness, or as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for...
- 12From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Preterm birth is considered to be associated with an estimated 27% of neonatal deaths, the majority in resource-poor countries where rates of prematurity are high. There is no information on medium term...
- 13From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction With 9.4 million new cases and 1.7 million deaths worldwide in 2009, tuberculosis (TB) constitutes an unacceptable burden of human suffering and loss [1]. The tools available for TB control are old, lack...
- 14From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedScaling up voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) for HIV prevention is cost saving and creates fiscal space in the future that otherwise would have been encumbered by antiretroviral treatment costs. An investment...
- 15From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedWhy Evidence-Based Guidelines Are Urgently Needed Mental, neurological, and substance use (MNS) disorders are highly prevalent and are responsible for 14% of the global burden of disease expressed in...
- 16From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction A 2009 World Health Assembly resolution on reducing health inequities through action on social determinants of health [1] calls for stakeholders, including researchers and research funders, to give this...
- 17From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedVoluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) reduces female-to-male HIV transmission by approximately 60%;modeling suggests that scaling up VMMC to 80% of men 15- to 49-years-old within five years would avert over 3.3...
- 18From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction Between 13% and 49% of the world's population develop neuropsychiatric disorders at some point in their life [1]. More and more evidence indicates that mental disorders and problems are common in all...
- 19From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedProgress to Build On With four years remaining before the world is held accountable to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and with numerous recent global pledges, it is imperative that energy and resources for...
- 20From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) are the mainstay for the management of uncomplicated malaria cases. However, up-to-date data able to assist sub-Saharan African countries formulating...