Background Congenital anomalies are among the common health problems faced by children in low- and middle-income countries, ...

Maternal mortality remains disproportionately high in low-income and middle-income countries, where pyramidal health systems ...

The emergence and spread of antimicrobial-resistant organisms is a major global health challenge. We report on the approach ...

Priority Setting Partnership aimed to identify and prioritise unanswered questions important to adult patients, their families and health professionals with lived experience of critical care across ...

Introduction Integration of management of tuberculosis (TB) and HIV with prevention and treatment of non-communicable ...

Introduction Hypertension programmes have expanded substantially in low-income and middle-income countries, yet treatment and control rates remain insufficient. Programme scale-up may lead to ...

During 2024, the number of pandemic-prone and epidemic-prone disease outbreaks worldwide was estimated at 301. The data highlight a shift in disease outbreak patterns, with a decline in the number of ...

Background As the threat of child malnutrition increases, the focus remains mostly on short-term consequences. Long-term ...

Introduction Cryptococcal meningitis (CM) is an infection of the central nervous system that accounts for approximately 19% ...

Introduction Motivated health workers are pivotal in providing adequate health services. This study aims to understand what motivates and demotivates maternal health workers. We do so in Somalia, an ...

Introduction Child stunting, a measure of malnutrition, is a major global health challenge affecting 148.1 million children in 2022. Global stunting rates have declined from 47.2% in 1985 to 22.3% in ...

Africa renewed its efforts to document maternal and perinatal deaths in 2014 following the release of the WHO’s maternal and perinatal death surveillance and response (MPDSR) guidelines. Successful ...