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January 2019

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Human trafficking and labor exploitation: Toward identifying, implementing, and evaluating effective responses
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Worldwide, some 25 million people are estimated to be victims of human trafficking, including migrant workers who are subject to different forms of serious exploitation and abuse. In an Editorial, Ligia Kiss and Cathy Zimmerman discuss the need for researchers to move beyond documentation of the nature of trafficking phenomena and the contexts in which they occur, and aim to understand the different settings and relevant causal factors. Appropriate research methods can then be evaluated and used to investigate approaches aimed at the prevention of human trafficking and mitigation of its damaging and prolonged effects on the people and families involved.

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Editorial

Human trafficking and labor exploitation: Toward identifying, implementing, and evaluating effective responses

Ligia Kiss, Cathy Zimmerman

PLOS Medicine: published January 29, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002740

Essay

Rapid antiretroviral therapy initiation in low- and middle-income countries: A resource-based approach

Mark W. Tenforde, A. Sarah Walker, Diana M. Gibb, Yukari C. Manabe

PLOS Medicine: published January 15, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002723

Perspective

Who elects the weekend?

Lauren Lapointe-Shaw, Chaim M. Bell

PLOS Medicine: published January 29, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002732

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Collection Review

Progress in the HIV epidemic: Identifying goals and measuring success

Jeb Jones, Patrick S. Sullivan, James W. Curran

PLOS Medicine: published January 18, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002729

Research Articles

HIV self-testing alone or with additional interventions, including financial incentives, and linkage to care or prevention among male partners of antenatal care clinic attendees in Malawi: An adaptive multi-arm, multi-stage cluster randomised trial

Augustine T. Choko, Elizabeth L. Corbett, Nigel Stallard, Hendramoorthy Maheswaran, Aurelia Lepine, Cheryl C. Johnson, Doreen Sakala, Thokozani Kalua, Moses Kumwenda, Richard Hayes, Katherine Fielding

PLOS Medicine: published January 2, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002719

The influence of obesity-related factors in the etiology of renal cell carcinoma—A mendelian randomization study

Mattias Johansson, Robert Carreras-Torres, Ghislaine Scelo, Mark P. Purdue, Daniela Mariosa, David C. Muller, Nicolas J. Timpson, Philip C. Haycock, Kevin M. Brown, Zhaoming Wang, Yuanqing Ye, Jonathan N. Hofmann, Matthieu Foll, Valerie Gaborieau, Mitchell J. Machiela, Leandro M. Colli, Peng Li, Jean-Guillaume Garnier, Helene Blanche, Anne Boland, Laurie Burdette, Egor Prokhortchouk, Konstantin G. Skryabin, Meredith Yeager, Sanja Radojevic-Skodric, Simona Ognjanovic, Lenka Foretova, Ivana Holcatova, Vladimir Janout, Dana Mates, Anush Mukeriya, Stefan Rascu, David Zaridze, Vladimir Bencko, Cezary Cybulski, Eleonora Fabianova, Viorel Jinga, Jolanta Lissowska, Jan Lubinski, Marie Navratilova, Peter Rudnai, Simone Benhamou, Geraldine Cancel-Tassin, Olivier Cussenot, Elisabete Weiderpass, Börje Ljungberg, Raviprakash Tumkur Sitaram, Christel Häggström, Fiona Bruinsma, Susan J. Jordan, Gianluca Severi, Ingrid Winship, Kristian Hveem, Lars J. Vatten, Tony Fletcher, Susanna C. Larsson, Alicja Wolk, Rosamonde E. Banks, Peter J. Selby, Douglas F. Easton, Gabriella Andreotti, Laura E. Beane Freeman, Stella Koutros, Satu Männistö, Stephanie Weinstein, Peter E. Clark, Todd L. Edwards, Loren Lipworth, Susan M. Gapstur, Victoria L. Stevens, Hallie Carol, Matthew L. Freedman, Mark M. Pomerantz, Eunyoung Cho, Kathryn M. Wilson, J. Michael Gaziano, Howard D. Sesso, Neal D. Freedman, Alexander S. Parker, Jeanette E. Eckel-Passow, Wen-Yi Huang, Richard J. Kahnoski, Brian R. Lane, Sabrina L. Noyes, David Petillo, Bin Tean Teh, Ulrike Peters, Emily White, Garnet L. Anderson, Lisa Johnson, Juhua Luo, Julie Buring, I-Min Lee, Wong-Ho Chow, Lee E. Moore, Timothy Eisen, Marc Henrion, James Larkin, Poulami Barman, Bradley C. Leibovich, Toni K. Choueiri, G. Mark Lathrop, Jean-Francois Deleuze, Marc Gunter, James D. McKay, Xifeng Wu, Richard S. Houlston, Stephen J. Chanock, Caroline Relton, J. Brent Richards, Richard M. Martin, George Davey Smith, Paul Brennan

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Health system costs for individual and comorbid noncommunicable diseases: An analysis of publicly funded health events from New Zealand

Tony Blakely, Giorgi Kvizhinadze, June Atkinson, Joseph Dieleman, Philip Clarke

PLOS Medicine: published January 8, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002716

Airway obstruction and bronchial reactivity from age 1 month until 13 years in children with asthma: A prospective birth cohort study

Henrik Wegener Hallas, Bo Lund Chawes, Morten Arendt Rasmussen, Lambang Arianto, Jakob Stokholm, Klaus Bønnelykke, Hans Bisgaard

PLOS Medicine: published January 8, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002722

Association between severe drought and HIV prevention and care behaviors in Lesotho: A population-based survey 2016–2017

Andrea J. Low, Koen Frederix, Stephen McCracken, Salome Manyau, Elizabeth Gummerson, Elizabeth Radin, Stefania Davia, Herbert Longwe, Nahima Ahmed, Bharat Parekh, Sally Findley, Amee Schwitters

PLOS Medicine: published January 14, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002727

No causal effects of serum urate levels on the risk of chronic kidney disease: A Mendelian randomization study

Daniel M. Jordan, Hyon K. Choi, Marie Verbanck, Ruth Topless, Hong-Hee Won, Girish Nadkarni, Tony R. Merriman, Ron Do

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Prior dengue virus infection and risk of Zika: A pediatric cohort in Nicaragua

Aubree Gordon, Lionel Gresh, Sergio Ojeda, Leah C. Katzelnick, Nery Sanchez, Juan Carlos Mercado, Gerardo Chowell, Brenda Lopez, Douglas Elizondo, Josefina Coloma, Raquel Burger-Calderon, Guillermina Kuan, Angel Balmaseda, Eva Harris

PLOS Medicine: published January 22, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002726

Predicting survival from colorectal cancer histology slides using deep learning: A retrospective multicenter study

Jakob Nikolas Kather, Johannes Krisam, Pornpimol Charoentong, Tom Luedde, Esther Herpel, Cleo-Aron Weis, Timo Gaiser, Alexander Marx, Nektarios A. Valous, Dyke Ferber, Lina Jansen, Constantino Carlos Reyes-Aldasoro, Inka Zörnig, Dirk Jäger, Hermann Brenner, Jenny Chang-Claude, Michael Hoffmeister, Niels Halama

PLOS Medicine: published January 24, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002730

The role of price and convenience in use of oral rehydration salts to treat child diarrhea: A cluster randomized trial in Uganda

Zachary Wagner, John Bosco Asiimwe, William H. Dow, David I. Levine

PLOS Medicine: published January 24, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002734

Evaluating strategies for control of tuberculosis in prisons and prevention of spillover into communities: An observational and modeling study from Brazil

Tarub S. Mabud, Maria de Lourdes Delgado Alves, Albert I. Ko, Sanjay Basu, Katharine S. Walter, Ted Cohen, Barun Mathema, Caroline Colijn, Everton Lemos, Julio Croda, Jason R. Andrews

PLOS Medicine: published January 24, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002737

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Association between temperature variability and daily hospital admissions for cause-specific cardiovascular disease in urban China: A national time-series study

Yaohua Tian, Hui Liu, Yaqin Si, Yaying Cao, Jing Song, Man Li, Yao Wu, Xiaowen Wang, Xiao Xiang, Juan Juan, Libo Chen, Chen Wei, Pei Gao, Yonghua Hu

PLOS Medicine: published January 28, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002738

Hospital admission on weekends for patients who have surgery and 30-day mortality in Ontario, Canada: A matched cohort study

James D. O’Leary, Hannah Wunsch, Anne-Marie Leo, David Levin, Asad Siddiqui, Mark W. Crawford

PLOS Medicine: published January 29, 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002731

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Evidence of a causal relationship between body mass index and psoriasis: A mendelian randomization study

Ashley Budu-Aggrey, Ben Brumpton, Jess Tyrrell, Sarah Watkins, Ellen H. Modalsli, Carlos Celis-Morales, Lyn D. Ferguson, Gunnhild Åberge Vie, Tom Palmer, Lars G. Fritsche, Mari Løset, Jonas Bille Nielsen, Wei Zhou, Lam C. Tsoi, Andrew R. Wood, Samuel E. Jones, Robin Beaumont, Marit Saunes, Pål Richard Romundstad, Stefan Siebert, Iain B. McInnes, James T. Elder, George Davey Smith, Timothy M. Frayling, Bjørn Olav Åsvold, Sara J. Brown, Naveed Sattar, Lavinia Paternoster

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