Introduction Seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine and amodiaquine (SPAQ) has been delivered ...

Introduction There have been increasing concerns about the overproduction of the health workforce in low- and middle-income ...

Aiming to investigate small island resilience in public health emergencies, we found existing classifications of Small Island ...

Introduction Timely detection, notification and response are critical for mitigating outbreak impact, yet evidence linking timeliness to public health outcomes is limited.Methods We hypothesised that ...

Introduction Globally, a growing burden of morbidity and mortality is attributable to lifestyle behaviours, and in particular to the consumption of tobacco, alcohol and sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) ...

Objective Progress towards equitable and sufficient water has primarily been measured by population-level data on water availability. However, higher-resolution measures of water accessibility, ...

Introduction Tuberculosis (TB) remains an important public health challenge globally. Madagascar faces a substantial TB burden despite enhanced efforts from its national TB control programme. This ...

Introduction Pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) is an important risk factor for chronic respiratory disease due to residual lung damage. Yet, the WHO End TB strategy does not mention post-TB chronic lung ...

Introduction The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) has been the World Health Organization’s (WHO) second biggest ...

Introduction Despite the high rates of intimate partner violence (IPV) globally and the negative impact of IPV and ...

Background Stillbirth rates remain unacceptably high in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Understanding the causes of ...

Introduction By 2050, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) could lead to over 10 million deaths annually and $100 trillion in ...