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  • Outlook |

    No single strategy alone is likely to thwart HIV's spread. Researchers are turning to 'prevention packages' of two or more approaches, Cassandra Willyard reports.

    • Cassandra Willyard

  • Outlook |

    Co-infection with HIV and tuberculosis is a potent combination. Amy Maxmen investigates the impact of this deadly duo.

    • Amy Maxmen

  • Feature |

    Chagas disease is a disease of Latin America. In spite of extensive control efforts it is so prevalent that in some areas, such as within the Gran Chaco (see Chagas disease in the Chaco, on page S18), one person in 16 is infected.

  • Feature |

    It is 101 years since Carlos Chagas discovered the parasite responsible for the disease that now bears his name. What progress has been made since this discovery? Here Julie Clayton gives the low-down on Chagas disease.

    • Julie Clayton

  • Feature |

    Anna Petherick investigates the nature of Chagas disease and how its management varies across Latin America.

    • Anna Petherick

  • Editorial |

    We must learn lessons from the handling of the flu pandemic to improve future research and public-health responses to emerging diseases, but retrospective hindsight and recriminations are not the answer.

  • Feature |

    Researching disease transmission in poor, rural settings is part scientific inquiry, part diplomacy.

    • Anna Petherick

  • Opinion |

    Endemic Chagas disease began as a neglected disease of poor, rural and forgotten populations. Its spread from Latin America to non-endemic countries is a new worldwide challenge, say José Rodrigues Coura and Pedro Albajar Viñas.

    • José Rodrigues Coura
    •  & Pedro Albajar Viñas

  • News |

    Reports throw unsubstantiated suspicion on scientific advice given to the World Health Organization.

    • Declan Butler

  • Letter |

    Rising global temperatures resulting from climate change have been predicted to increase the future incidence of infectious diseases, including malaria. However, it is known that the range of malaria has contracted through a century of economic development and disease control. This contraction has now been quantified, and compared with the predicted effects of climate on malaria incidence. It is suggested that the impact of rising temperature is likely to be minor.

    • Peter W. Gething
    • , David L. Smith
    •  & Simon I. Hay

  • Opinion |

    Klaus Stöhr of Novartis argues that pre-pandemic immunization with a cocktail of likely strains could be a cheap, practical and equitable way to protect people against influenza.

    • Klaus Stöhr

  • Opinion |

    After five years, the World Health Organization's tobacco-control treaty is starting to have an effect, but we need to tackle the smoking epidemic in the developing world, say Jonathan M. Samet and Heather L. Wipfli.

    • Jonathan M. Samet
    •  & Heather L. Wipfli

  • News |

    Studies in several nations show that treating people before they fall ill can curb the spread of disease.

    • Erika Check Hayden

  • Books & Arts |

    The director of the US National Institutes of Health, Francis Collins, calls for a revolution in personalized medicine. Such advances should be shared beyond the developed world, says Abdallah S. Daar.

    • Abdallah S. Daar

  • Editorial |

    It is time to assess what worked, and what didn't, in the global efforts to cope with swine flu.

  • News Feature |

    Richard Besser led the United States' top public-health agency as swine flu broke out on its doorstep. And his communication shaped the early days of a pandemic, finds Brendan Maher.

    • Brendan Maher

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