Diana Gibb and colleagues investigate the effect of in utero tenofovir exposure by analysing the pregnancy and infant outcomes of HIV-infected women enrolled in the DART trial.
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As part of a cluster of articles leading up to the 2012 World Health Report and critically reflecting on the theme of “no health without research,” Suerie Moon and colleagues argue for a global health R&D treaty to improve innovation in new medicines and strengthening affordability, sustainable financing, efficiency in innovation, and equitable health-centered governance.
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John-Arne Røttingen and Claudia Chamas, chairs of the the Consultative Expert Working Group on Research and Development (CEWG), summarize their recent report recommending to the World Health Assembly that a global health R&D convention be developed.
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The World Health Report 2012, the biannual flagship report of the World Health Organization, will focus for the first time in its history on the theme of research for better health. 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. Aimed at ministers of health, the report will provide new ideas, innovative thinking, and pragmatic advice on how to strengthen health research systems. WHO and PLoS have launched an initiative to encourage researchers to complement and substantiate the key messages in World Health Report 2012 by creating a special WHO/PLoS Collection.
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The Consultative Expert Working Group on Research and Development: Financing and Coordination (CEWG) was established to advise the World Health Assembly being held this year 21-26 May 2012 in Geneva.
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