Global health review

 

Antimicrobial resistance

 

 

PLOS Global Public Health • Article***MENTIONS MSF***: Antimicrobial resistance in bacterial wound, skin, soft tissue and surgical site infections in Central, Eastern, Southern and Western Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis

 

 

 

WHO Bulletin • Perspectives: How to finance national antimicrobial resistance action plans

 

 

 

WHO Bulletin • Article: Overuse of antibiotics for urinary tract infections in pregnant refugees, Lebanon

 

 

 

Climate change and Planetary Health

 

 

WHO Bulletin • Perspectives: A health financing policy agenda for climate mitigation and adaptation

 

 

 

WHO Bulletin • Practice: Climate finance opportunities for health and health systems

 

 

 

WHO Bulletin • Article: Global, regional and national trends and impacts of natural floods, 1990–2022

 

 

 

PLOS Global Public Health • Article: Post-traumatic stress disorder, food insecurity, and social capital after the 2017 coastal El Niño flooding among mothers from Piura, Peru: A mixed method study

 

 

 

eBioMedicine • Article: Projecting heat-related cardiovascular mortality burden attributable to human-induced climate change in China

 

 

 

BMJ Global Halth • Comment: The global health community at international climate change negotiations

 

 

 

Conflict, migration and health

 

 

Conflict and Health • Article: Armed actor interventions in humanitarian and public health crises: examining perspectives of crisis-affected community members

 

 

 

Conflict and Health • Article: How integration of refugees into national health systems became a global priority: a qualitative policy analysis

 

 

 

PLOS Global Public Health • Article: Implementing supportive supervision in acute humanitarian emergencies: Lessons learned from Afghanistan and Ukraine

 

 

 

Conflict and Health • Article: The emergence and regression of political priority for refugee integration into the Jordanian health system: an analysis using the Kingdon’s multiple streams model

 

 

 

Global health

 

 

WHO Bulletin • Perspectives: A finance and health collaboration to counter pandemic threats

 

 

 

WHO Bulletin • Case Study: A health economic and industrial complex that facilitates production and innovation for universal health access, Brazil

 

 

 

WHO Bulletin • Perspectives: A taxonomy for the financing of health for all

 

 

 

BMJ • News: Almost a quarter more working adults will have major illness by 2040, experts predict

 

 

 

WHO Bulletin • Article: Analysing governments' progress on the right to health

 

 

 

WHO Bulletin • Perspectives: Beyond GDP: understanding the interdependence of human and planetary health and the economy

 

 

 

BMJ Global Halth • Comment: From polycrisis to metacrisis: harnessing windows of opportunity for renewed political leadership in global health diplomacy

 

 

 

BMJ • Opinion: Health literacy matters

 

 

 

BMJ • Feature: Health under the spotlight in India’s 2024 election

 

 

 

BMJ • News: Nestlé accused of double standards over added sugar in baby products sold in poorer countries

 

 

 

BMJ Global Halth • Comment: Quality and safety for substances of human origins: scientific evidence and the new EU regulations

 

 

 

BMJ Global Halth • Comment: The need for global social epidemiology in the polycrisis era

 

 

 

BMJ Global Halth • Editorial: The rural surgeon: a practice to strive for

 

 

 

Health Policy Plan. • Article: Unfair knowledge practices in global health: a realist synthesis

 

 

 

HIV

 

 

WHO Bulletin • Article: Provision of cervical cancer services for women living with HIV, Uganda

 

 

 

Malaria

 

 

Malaria Journal • Article: Ageing of Plasmodium falciparum malaria sporozoites alters their motility, infectivity and reduces immune activation in vitro

 

 

 

Malaria Journal • Article: Aspecific binding of anti-NK1.1 antibodies on myeloid cells in an experimental model for malaria-associated acute respiratory distress syndrome

 

 

 

Malaria Journal • Article: Effect of spatiotemporal variables on abundance, biting activity and parity of Nyssorhynchus darlingi (Diptera: Culicidae) in peri-Iquitos, Peru

 

 

 

PLOS Global Public Health • Opinion: Eliminating malaria in our time

 

 

 

PLOS Global Public Health • Article: Facilitators and barriers to integrated malaria prevention in Wakiso district, Uganda: A photovoice study

 

 

 

Malaria Journal • Article: Factors associated with malaria vaccine uptake in Nsanje district, Malawi

 

 

 

Malaria Journal • Article: Factors associated with the risk of malaria among children: analysis of 2021 Nigeria Malaria Indicator Survey

 

 

 

Malaria Journal • Article: Let it glow: genetically encoded fluorescent reporters in Plasmodium

 

 

 

Malaria Journal • Article: Mapping malaria vectors and insecticide resistance in a high-endemic district of Haryana, India: implications for vector control strategies

 

 

 

JAMA • Article: Mosquito Bed Net Use and Burkitt Lymphoma Incidence in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

 

 

 

Malaria Journal • Article: Superior protection in a relapsing Plasmodium cynomolgi rhesus macaque model by a chemoprophylaxis with sporozoite immunization regimen with atovaquone-proguanil followed by primaquine

 

 

 

Malaria Journal • Article: Willingness to accept and participate in a Microsporidia MB-based mosquito release strategy: a community-based rapid assessment in western Kenya

 

 

 

Maternal and child health

 

 

BMJ Global Halth • Article: A biosocial analysis of perinatal and late neonatal mortality among Indigenous Maya Kaqchikel communities in Tecpán, Guatemala: a mixed-methods study

 

 

 

WHO Bulletin • Practice: A proposal to recognize investment in breastfeeding as a carbon offset

 

 

 

PLOS Global Public Health • Article: Breastfeeding practices and social norms in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo: A qualitative study

 

 

 

The Lancet Global Health • Article: Estimated global and regional causes of deaths from diarrhoea in children younger than 5 years during 2000–21: a systematic review and Bayesian multinomial analysis

 

 

 

PLOS Global Public Health • Article: Feasibility and acceptability of a novel biomedical device to prevent neonatal hypothermia and augment Kangaroo Mother Care in Kenya: Qualitative analysis of focus group discussions and key Informant Interviews

 

 

 

BMJ • News: The world has made no progress in reducing preventable deaths in pregnancy and childbirth, says UN agency

 

 

 

Mental health

 

 

PLOS Global Public Health • Article: Exploring the burden on family caregivers in providing care for their mentally ill relatives in the Upper East Region of Ghana

 

 

 

Conflict and Health • Article: Prevalence, comorbidities, and factors associated with prolonged grief disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder and complex posttraumatic stress disorder in refugees: a systematic review

 

 

 

PLOS Global Public Health • Article: Reflections on the trends of suicide in Sri Lanka, 1997–2022: The need for continued vigilance

 

 

 

PLOS Global Public Health • Article: Social support, distress, stress, anxiety, and depression as predictors of suicidal thoughts among selected university students in Bangladesh

 

 

 

WHO Bulletin • Practice: Towards a well-being economy for mental health

 

 

 

Neglected tropical diseases

 

 

Tropical Medicine and International Health • other: A case of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever complicated with portal vein thrombosis and hemophagocytosis

 

 

 

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases • Article: Association of liver function and prognosis in patients with severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome

 

 

 

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases • ArticleArticle: Dengue vector control in high-income, city settings: A scoping review of approaches and methods

 

 

 

BMJ • News: Dengue: Argentinians turn to homemade repellent amid surge in cases

 

 

 

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases • Article: Design, development, and validation of multi-epitope proteins for serological diagnosis of Zika virus infections and discrimination from dengue virus seropositivity

 

 

 

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases • Article: Edge Artificial Intelligence (AI) for real-time automatic quantification of filariasis in mobile microscopy

 

 

 

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases • Article: Effect of fasting plasma glucose level in severe fever and thrombocytopenia syndrome patients without diabetes

 

 

 

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases • Article: Endemic status of urogenital schistosomiasis and the efficacy of a single-dose praziquantel treatment in unmapped rural farming communities in Oyo East Local Government Area, Oyo State, Nigeria

 

 

 

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases • Article: Extant interspecific hybridization among trematodes within the Schistosoma haematobium species complex in Nigeria

 

 

 

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases • Article: Ginkgo biloba attenuated detrimental inflammatory and oxidative events due to Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense in mice treated with melarsoprol

 

 

 

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases • Article: Global seroprevalence of Zika virus in asymptomatic individuals: A systematic review

 

 

 

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases • Article: Impact of conflict on the elimination targets of lymphatic filariasis, schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminths in Cabo Delgado province, Mozambique

 

 

 

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases • Article: Impact of conflict on the elimination targets of lymphatic filariasis, schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminths in Cabo Delgado province, Mozambique

 

 

 

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases • Article: Leishmania blood parasite dynamics during and after treatment of visceral leishmaniasis in Eastern Africa: A pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic model

 

 

 

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases • Article: Local amphotericin B therapy for Cutaneous Leishmaniasis: A systematic review

 

 

 

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases • Article: Machine learning for predicting Chagas disease infection in rural areas of Brazil

 

 

 

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases • Article: Modelled impact of Tiny Targets on the distribution and abundance of riverine tsetse

 

 

 

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases • Article: Perceived needs of disease vector control programs: A review and synthesis of (sub)national assessments from South Asia and the Middle East

 

 

 

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases • Article: Post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis (PKDL) drug efficacy study landscape: A systematic scoping review of clinical trials and observational studies to assess the feasibility of establishing an individual participant-level data (IPD) platform

 

 

 

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases • Article: Predominance of multidrug-resistant Salmonella Typhi genotype 4.3.1 with low-level ciprofloxacin resistance in Zanzibar

 

 

 

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases • Article: Schistosome infection among pregnant women in the rural highlands of Madagascar: A cross-sectional study calling for public health interventions in vulnerable populations

 

 

 

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases • Article: The elimination of human African trypanosomiasis: Monitoring progress towards the 2021–2030 WHO road map targets

 

 

 

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases • Article: The Vicious Worm education tool improves the knowledge of community health workers on Taenia solium cysticercosis in Rwanda

 

 

 

JAMA • Opinion: Use of Insecticide-Treated Bed Nets and Incidence of Burkitt Lymphoma

 

 

 

Non-communicable diseases

 

 

BMJ • Opinion: Breaking free from the stigma of diabetes

 

 

 

The Lancet Regional Health: Americas • Article: Burden of liver disease in Brazil, 1996–2022: a retrospective descriptive study of the epidemiology and impact on public healthcare

 

 

 

PLOS Global Public Health • Article: Child, family and household characteristics associated with physical activity in Samoan children aged 3–8 years: A cross-sectional study

 

 

 

PLOS Global Public Health • Article: Epidemiology and referral patterns of patients living with chronic kidney disease in Johannesburg, South Africa: A single centre experience

 

 

 

BMJ Global Halth • Article: Estimated health benefits, costs and cost-effectiveness of eliminating industrial trans-fatty acids in Nigeria: cost-effectiveness analysis

 

 

 

Heart & Lung • Article: Psychosocial readiness assessment for heart transplant candidates

 

 

 

PLOS Global Public Health • Article: Treatment seeking behaviour and associated factors among adults with high blood pressure from three selected states in Nigeria

 

 

 

Outbreaks

 

 

WHO Bulletin • Review: Financing for pandemic preparedness and response measures: a systematic scoping review

 

 

 

Research and reporting

 

 

PLOS Global Public Health • Article: A toolkit for planning and implementing acute febrile illness (AFI) surveillance

 

 

 

WHO Bulletin • Practice: An mRNA technology transfer programme and economic sustainability in health care

 

 

 

The Lancet Regional Health: Southeast Asia • Article: Challenges faced by medical officers in providing healthcare services at upazila health complexes and district hospitals in Bangladesh – a qualitative study

 

 

 

PLOS Global Public Health • Article: Changes in access to viral load testing, incidence rates of viral load suppression and rebound following the introduction of the ‘universal test and treat’ guidelines in Cameroon: A retrospective follow-up analysis

 

 

 

The Lancet Infectious Disease • Article: Global burden associated with 85 pathogens in 2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

 

 

 

The Lancet • Article: Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 371 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

 

 

 

The Lancet Infectious Disease • Article: Global, regional, and national incidence and mortality burden of non-COVID-19 lower respiratory infections and aetiologies, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

 

 

 

Ethiopian Medical Journal • Article: Healthcare professionals’ job motivation in a federal hospital in Ethiopia: A Cross-sectional study

 

 

 

BMJ Global Halth • Article: Magnitude and determinants of excess total, age-specific and sex-specific all-cause mortality in 24 countries worldwide during 2020 and 2021: results on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic from the C-MOR project

 

 

 

BMJ Global Halth • Editorial: Making sense of national and international disparities in excess mortality from the COVID-19 pandemic

 

 

 

PLOS Global Public Health • Article: SARS-CoV-2 co-detection with influenza and human respiratory syncytial virus in Ethiopia: Findings from the severe acute respiratory illness (SARI) and influenza-like illness (ILI) sentinel surveillance, January 01, 2021, to June 30, 2022

 

 

 

BMJ Global Halth • Article: Shapeshifters: Global South scholars and their tensions in border-crossing to Global North journals

 

 

 

PLOS Global Public Health • Article: The effect of COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare seeking in an urban informal settlement in Nairobi and a rural setting in western Kenya

 

 

 

Sexual and reproductive health

 

 

PLOS Global Public Health • Article: Cervical cancer screening outcomes for HIV-positive women in the Lubombo and Manzini regions of Eswatini—Prevalence and predictors of a positive visual inspection with acetic acid (VIA) screen

 

 

 

PLOS Global Public Health • Article: Uptake of Human Papilloma Virus vaccine among young women living in fishing communities in Wakiso and Mukono districts, Uganda

 

 

 

Tuberculosis

 

 

WHO Bulletin • Review: Health literacy and tuberculosis control: systematic review and meta-analysis

 

 

 

Vaccines

 

 

PLOS Global Public Health • Article: Attitudes towards COVID-19 vaccination: A cross sectional study in the Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria

 

 

 

PLOS Global Public Health • Article: Effectiveness of COVID-19 mRNA vaccine in preventing infection against Omicron strain: Findings from the Hiroshima Prefecture COVID-19 version J-SPEED for PCR center

 

 

 

The Lancet Regional Health: Western Pacific • Article: Factors associated with hepatitis B vaccination in Laos: findings from the multiple indicator cluster surveys in 2011/12 and 2017