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Using information technologies to conduct clinical trials in low income settings

PLoS Medicine special issue on poverty and health

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This week PLoS Medicine publishes a special collection of articles that aim to highlight the profound influence of poverty upon health, as part of the Council of Science Editors’ Global Theme Issue on Poverty and Human Development (http://www.councilscienceeditors.org/globalthemeissue.cfm):

  • Using information technologies to conduct clinical trials in low income settings

  • Improving access to health care in the world’s poorest countries

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Using information technologies to conduct clinical trials in low income settings

Eva Harris (University of California, Berkeley, USA) and colleagues in the United States and Nicaragua report their experience of integrating information technologies in clinical and epidemiological studies of dengue infection in Nicaragua.

Citation: Avilés W, Ortega O, Kuan G, Coloma J, Harris E (2007) Integration of information technologies in clinical studies in Nicaragua. PLoS Med 4( 0): e291.

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CONTACT:
Eva Harris
University of California, Berkeley
Division of Infectious Diseases, School of Public Health
140 Warren Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-7360
United States of America
+1 510) 642-4845
+1 510 642-6350 (fax)
eharris@berkeley.edu


Improving access to health care in the world’s poorest countries

Brigit Obrist (Swiss Tropical Institute) and colleagues in Tanzania and Switzerland present a framework for analysis and action to explore and improve access to health care in resource-poor countries, especially in Africa.

Citation: Obrist B, Iteba N, Lengeler C, Makemba A, Mshana C, et al. (2007) Access to health care in contexts of livelihood insecurity: A framework for analysis and action. PLoS Med 4( 0): e308.

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CONTACT:
Brigit Obrist
Swiss Tropical Institute
Department of Public Health and Epidemiology
Socinstrasse 57
Basel, Basel 4002
Switzerland
+41 61 2848163
Brigit.Obrist@unibas.ch

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