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Opinion & Comment: How Can Biomedical Journals Help to Tackle Global Poverty?
Posted by: JimEdwards on Aug 29, 2006 - 02:52 PM
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PLoS Medicine
Out of the eight United Nations Goals (http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals), one of the most crucial is the goal of halving the number of people living in extreme poverty—most of whom live in developing countries and who survive on less than US$1 per day—by 2015. The scientific and medical communities have an important role to play in reaching this goal through, for example, tackling the infectious diseases that promote poverty (such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, and intestinal worms), reversing the loss of environmental resources, and disseminating new technologies to developing countries. And scientific and medical journals, the “arbiters of formalized scientific knowledge” (http://ejournal.nbii.org/archives/vol2iss1/editorial.bozuwa.html), are central to this enterprise.
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