Global health review
A weekly round-up of all the latest global health research from MSF projects and beyond
26 April 2024
Only 3 weeks to go until MSF Scientific Days! Registration for in-person and online attendance is open. Presentations include an analysis of new personal protective equipment for filovirus outbreaks and the first application of MSF’s clinical trial cost transparency policy. The Keynote Speech will be provided by Alex de Waal, World Peace Foundation, Tufts University, and a panel discussion on mortality estimates will be led by Leslie Roberts.
This week in PLOS Global Public Health, MSF contributed to a systematic review and meta-analysis revealing high rates of antimicrobial resistance across five bacterial species isolated from infected wounds, skin and soft tissue infections, and surgical site infections across the African continent. The same journal also examined post-traumatic stress disorder, food insecurity, and social capital of mothers affected by the El Niño flooding in Piura, Peru.
In The Lancet Infectious Diseases, researchers documented the disability-adjusted life-years associated with 85 pathogens globally. BMJ sought to understand Global South researchers’ motivations and experiences of publishing in Global North journals.
Finally, it was World Malaria Day this week! To mark this, Malaria Journal reviewed the use of fluorescent proteins as a valuable research tool in understanding Plasmodium parasites.
Best regards
Lydia Lampiri, Mohammad Salaymeh, Ononna Thuli and Holly Baker with MSF-authored article assistance from Patricia Kahn and Camryn Lewis.
All MSF-authored publications can be found on the MSF Science Portal, as well as recordings, abstracts and posters from the MSF Scientific Days International 2023 conference.
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