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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Mortality variability and differentials by age and causes of death in rural South Africa, 1994-2018.
Brian Houle, Chodziwadziwa Kabudula, Sanyu A Mojola, Nicole Angotti, Francesc Xavier Gómez-Olivé, Dickman Gareta, Kobus Herbst, Samuel J Clark, Jane Menken, Vladimir Canudas-Romo
INTRODUCTION: Understanding mortality variability by age and cause is critical to identifying intervention and prevention actions to support disadvantaged populations. We assessed mortality changes in two rural South African populations over 25 years covering pre-AIDS and peak AIDS epidemic and subsequent antiretroviral therapy (ART) availability. METHODS: Using population surveillance data from the Agincourt Health and Socio-Demographic Surveillance System (AHDSS; 1994-2018) and Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI; 2000-2018) for 5-year periods, we calculated life expectancy from birth to age 85, mortality age distributions and variation, and life-years lost (LYL) decomposed into four cause-of-death groups...
April 8, 2024: BMJ Global Health
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Hala Abou-Taleb, Sebastian van Gilst, Nada Mohamed, Awad Mataria
National public health institutes (NPHIs) are crucial to the effectiveness of public health systems, including delivering essential public health functions and generating evidence for national health policies, strategies and plans. Currently, there is a significant lack of information regarding NPHI or NPHI-like organisations in Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) countries, including how they fit into their broader health systems governance landscape. NPHIs exist in 12 out of 22 EMR countries, yet there is no official International Association of National Public Health Institutes (IANPHI) regional network for the EMR, despite established IANPHI networks in four other regions...
April 8, 2024: BMJ Global Health
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Franck Mboussou, Shalom Tchokfe Ndoula, Raoul Nembot, Simon Franky Baonga, Arnaud Njinkeu, Andreas Ateke Njoh, Joseph Nsiari-Muzeyi Biey, Mohamed Kaba, Adidja Amani, Bridget Farham, Phanuel Habimana, Benido Impouma
Three months after the first shipment of RTS,S1/AS01 vaccines, Cameroon started, on 22 January 2024, to roll out malaria vaccines in 42 districts among the most at risk for malaria. Cameroon adopted and implemented the World Health Organization (WHO) malaria vaccine readiness assessment tool to monitor the implementation of preintroduction activities at the district and national levels. One week before the start of the vaccine rollout, overall readiness was estimated at 89% at a national level with two out of the five components of readiness assessment surpassing 95% of performance (vaccine, cold chain and logistics and training) and three components between 80% and 95% (planning, monitoring and supervision, and advocacy, social mobilisation and communication)...
April 4, 2024: BMJ Global Health
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Juniorcaius Ikejezie, Alessandro Miglietta, Ingrid Hammermeister Nezu, Sandra Adele, Melissa M Higdon, Daniel Feikin, Harsh Lata, Samuel Mesfin, Friday Idoko, Kazuki Shimizu, Ayse Acma, Samuel Moro, Homa Attar Cohen, Mary Anissa Sinnathamby, James Richard Otieno, Yosef Temre, Brian Ngongheh Ajong, Bernadette Basuta Mirembe, Tondri Noe Guinko, Vaishali Sodagar, Craig Schultz, Joao Muianga, Stéphane De Barros, Aura Rocio Escobar Corado Waeber, Yeowon Jin, Anahi Rico Chinchilla, Yurie Izawa, Shagun Khare, Marcia Poole, Nyka Alexander, Silviu Ciobanu, Tshewang Dorji, Mahmoud Hassan, Masaya Kato, Tamano Matsui, Opeayo Ogundiran, Richard G Pebody, Manilay Phengxay, Ana Riviere-Cinnamond, Blanche Johanna Greene-Cramer, Emilie Peron, Brett Nicholas Archer, Lorenzo Subissi, Zyleen Alnashir Kassamali, Adedoyin Awofisayo-Okuyelu, Olivier le Polain de Waroux, Esther Hamblion, Boris Igor Pavlin, Oliver Morgan, Ibrahima Socé Fall, Maria D Van Kerkhove, Abdi Mahamud
On 31 December 2019, the Municipal Health Commission of Wuhan, China, reported a cluster of atypical pneumonia cases. On 5 January 2020, the WHO publicly released a Disease Outbreak News (DON) report, providing information about the pneumonia cases, implemented response interventions, and WHO's risk assessment and advice on public health and social measures. Following 9 additional DON reports and 209 daily situation reports, on 17 August 2020, WHO published the first edition of the COVID-19 Weekly Epidemiological Update (WEU)...
April 4, 2024: BMJ Global Health
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Silvia Fernández-García, Laura Del Campo-Albendea, Dharshini Sambamoorthi, Jameela Sheikh, Karen Lau, Nana Osei-Lah, Anoushka Ramkumar, Harshitha Naidu, Nicole Stoney, Paul Sundaram, Paulomi Sengupta, Samay Mehta, Shruti Attarde, Sophie Maddock, Millie Manning, Zainita Meherally, Kehkashan Ansari, Heidi Lawson, Magnus Yap, Tania Kew, Andriya Punnoose, Chloe Knight, Eyna Sadeqa, Jiya Cherian, Sangamithra Ravi, Wentin Chen, Kate Walker, Keelin O'Donoghue, Madelon van Wely, Elizabeth van Leeuwen, Elena Kostova, Heinke Kunst, Asma Khalil, Vanessa Brizuela, Edna Kara, Caron Rahn Kim, Anna Thorson, Olufemi T Oladapo, Lynne Mofenson, Sami L Gottlieb, Mercedes Bonet, Ngawai Moss, Javier Zamora, John Allotey, Shakila Thangaratinam
OBJECTIVE: To assess the effects of COVID-19 vaccines in women before or during pregnancy on SARS-CoV-2 infection-related, pregnancy, offspring and reactogenicity outcomes. DESIGN: Systematic review and meta-analysis. DATA SOURCES: Major databases between December 2019 and January 2023. STUDY SELECTION: Nine pairs of reviewers contributed to study selection. We included test-negative designs, comparative cohorts and randomised trials on effects of COVID-19 vaccines on infection-related and pregnancy outcomes...
April 4, 2024: BMJ Global Health
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Diavolana Andrianarimanana-Köcher, Rivo Andry Rakotoarivelo, Mamy Jean de Dieu Randria, Mihaja Raberahona, Andosoa Ratefiharimanana, Emmanuel Harizaka Andriamasy, Xavier Vallès, Anne-Caroline Benski, Julius Valentin Emmrich, Andrew Walsh, Kyle Robinson, Nadine Muller
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
April 3, 2024: BMJ Global Health
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Yao Rodion Konu, Fall Dogo, Claver Anoumou Dagnra, Tinah Atcha-Oubou, Fifonsi Adjidossi Gbeasor-Komlanvi, Kossivi Agbelenko Afanvi, Fatoumata Binta Tidiane Diallo, Mahmoud Teouri, Moustafa Mijiyawa, Didier Koumavi Ekouevi
BACKGROUND: Limited data are available on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on health-related indicators in sub-Saharan Africa. This study aimed to estimate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on nine indicators of HIV, malaria and tuberculosis (TB) in Togo. METHODS: For this interrupted time series analysis, national health information system data from January 2019 to December 2021 and TB programmatic data from the first quarter of 2018 to the fourth quarter of 2022 were analysed...
April 3, 2024: BMJ Global Health
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REVIEW
Sunil Pokharel, Bipin Adhikari, Tess Johnson, Phaik Yeong Cheah
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global health and one health problem. Efforts to mitigate the problem of AMR are challenging to implement due to unresolved ethical tensions. We present an in-depth ethical analysis of tensions that might hinder efforts to address AMR. First, there is a tension between access and excess in the current population: addressing lack of access requires facilitating use of antimicrobials for some populations, while addressing excessive use for other populations. Second, there is a tension between personal interests and a wider, shared interest in curbing AMR...
April 3, 2024: BMJ Global Health
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Baleng Mahama Wutor, Isaac Osei, Golam Sarwar, Williams Oluwatosin Adefila, Lobga Babila Galega, Ilias Hossain, Yusuf Abdulsalam, Keita Modou Lamin, Alhagie Muya Baldeh, Basiru Barry, Esu Ezeani, Grant Mackenzie
Without complete data on under-5 mortality, tracking progress towards achieving Sustainable Development Goal 3.2 will be challenging. Such data are also needed to ensure proper planning and prioritisation of scarce resources in low-income and middle-income countries. However, most low-income and middle-income countries have weak Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) systems, leaving a critical gap in understanding under-5 mortality dynamics. This paper outlines a community-based approach to enhance under-5 mortality surveillance in low-income countries, using The Gambia as a case study...
April 2, 2024: BMJ Global Health
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Mehr Gul Shah, Teesta Dey, Sophie Marie Kostelecky, Maria El Bizri, Mariana Rodo, Neha S Singh, Samira Aboubaker, Egmond Samir Evers, Per Ashorn, Etienne V Langlois
INTRODUCTION: Progress related to sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health (SRMNCAH) has stalled. COVID-19, conflict and climate change threaten to reverse decades of progress and to ensure the health and well-being of vulnerable populations in humanitarian and fragile settings (HFS) going forward, there is a need for tailored guidance for women, children and adolescents (WCA). This review seeks to map and appraise current resources on SRMNCAH in HFS. METHODS: In line with the updated Joanna Briggs Institute guidance and the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Extension for Scoping Reviews framework, a manual literature review was conducted of global and regional guidance published between January 2008 and May 2023 from members of the Global Health Cluster, the Global Nutrition Cluster and the Inter-Agency Working Group on Reproductive Health in Crises...
March 29, 2024: BMJ Global Health
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sundus Haji-Jama, Ann Moen, Wasiq Khan, Abdinasir Abubakar, Richard Brennan
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
March 28, 2024: BMJ Global Health
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REVIEW
Olaa Mohamed-Ahmed, Hala Aboutaleb, Samia Latif, Hannah L Watson, Rachel Handley, Emily Humphreys, Fethiye Gulin Gedik, Joia De Sa, Yu Zhang, Tazeem Bhatia, Osman Dar, Sohel Saikat, Neil Squires, Awad Mataria
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed vulnerabilities in many health systems worldwide with profound implications for health and society. The public health challenges experienced during the pandemic have highlighted the importance of resilient health systems, that can adapt and transform to meet the population's evolving health needs. Essential public health functions (EPHFs) offer a holistic, integrated and sustainable approach to public health by contributing to achieving several health priorities and goals. In recent years, there has been a focused effort to conceptualise and define the EPHFs...
March 28, 2024: BMJ Global Health
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Emily J Callander, Vanessa Scarf, Andrea Nove, Caroline Homer, Alayna Carrandi, Abu Sayeed Abdullah, Sheila Clow, Abdul Halim, Scovia Nalugo Mbalinda, Rose Chalo Nabirye, Akm Fazlur Rahman, Saad Ibrahim Rasheed, Arslan Munir Turk, Oliva Bazirete, Sabera Turkmani, Mandy Forrester, Shree Mandke, Sally Pairman, Martin Boyce
INTRODUCTION: Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality rates will require the expansion and strengthening of quality maternal health services. Midwife-led birth centres (MLBCs) are an alternative to hospital-based care for low-risk pregnancies where the lead professional at the time of birth is a trained midwife. These have been used in many countries to improve birth outcomes. METHODS: The cost analysis used primary data collection from four MLBCs in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Uganda (n=12 MLBC sites)...
March 28, 2024: BMJ Global Health
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Avika Dixit, Luca Freschi, Roger Vargas, Matthias I Gröschel, Maria Nakhoul, Sabira Tahseen, S M Masud Alam, S M Mostofa Kamal, Alena Skrahina, Ramon P Basilio, Dodge R Lim, Nazir Ismail, Maha R Farhat
BACKGROUND: Global tuberculosis (TB) drug resistance (DR) surveillance focuses on rifampicin. We examined the potential of public and surveillance Mycobacterium tuberculosis ( Mtb ) whole-genome sequencing (WGS) data, to generate expanded country-level resistance prevalence estimates (antibiograms) using in silico resistance prediction. METHODS: We curated and quality-controlled Mtb WGS data. We used a validated random forest model to predict phenotypic resistance to 12 drugs and bias-corrected for model performance, outbreak sampling and rifampicin resistance oversampling...
March 28, 2024: BMJ Global Health
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Barthélémy Sarda, Emmanuelle Kesse-Guyot, Bernard Srour, Mélanie Deschasaux-Tanguy, Morgane Fialon, Léopold K Fezeu, Pilar Galan, Serge Hercberg, Mathilde Touvier, Chantal Julia
BACKGROUND: Food reformulation is promoted as a tool to improve the nutritional quality of population diets. However, the potential impact of industry-wide reformulation on dietary intake has been investigated minimally. OBJECTIVES: The aim was to estimate the impact on the French population nutrient intakes of industry-wide reformulation towards healthier products using the updated nutrient profiling system underpinning the front-of-pack nutrition label Nutri-Score (uNS-NPS)...
March 25, 2024: BMJ Global Health
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Joseph Bukulu Sempa, Rutuja Patil, Jake D Mathewson, Hannah Kabelka, Nima Yaghmaei, Harry Coleman, Preeti Sohoni, Masja Straetemans, Gowri Gopalakrishna, Martijn Wienia, Francis Kombe, Sandra Alba
INTRODUCTION: In the past decade, global health research has seen a growing emphasis on research integrity and fairness. The concept of research integrity emerged in response to the reproducibility crisis in science during the late 2000s. Research fairness initiatives aim to enhance ownership and inclusivity in research involving partners with varying powers, decision-making roles and resource capacities, ultimately prioritising local health research needs. Despite extensive academic discussions, empirical data on these aspects, especially in the context of global health, remain limited...
March 22, 2024: BMJ Global Health
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Emily R Hilton, Ndombour Gning-Cisse, Auguste Assi, Mathieu Eyakou, John Koffi, Barthelemy Gnakou, Bernard Kouassi, Cecilia Flatley, Joseph Chabi, Constant Gbalegba, Serge Alex Aimain, Colette Yah Kokrasset, Mea Antoine Tanoh, Sylvain N'Gotta, Octavie Yao, Hughes Egou Assi, Philomène Konan, Kelly Davis, Edi Constant, Allison Belemvire, Patricia Yepassis-Zembrou, Pascal Zinzindohoue, Blaise Kouadio, Sarah Burnett
BACKGROUND: Indoor residual spraying (IRS) using neonicotinoid-based insecticides (clothianidin and combined clothianidin with deltamethrin) was deployed in two previously unsprayed districts of Côte d'Ivoire in 2020 and 2021 to complement standard pyrethroid insecticide-treated nets. This retrospective observational study uses health facility register data to assess the impact of IRS on clinically reported malaria case incidence. METHODS: Health facility data were abstracted from consultation registers for the period September 2018 to April 2022 in two IRS districts and two control districts that did not receive IRS...
March 22, 2024: BMJ Global Health
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Yi-Roe Tan, Manh Duc Nguyen, Caroline Antonia Mubaira, Dan Kajungu, Dinesh Kumar, Felipe C Canlas, Firli Yogiteten Sunaryoko, Gyanu Raja Maharjan, Harjyot Khosa, Ingo Hauter, Joan Thiga, Md Mazharul Anowar, Patrick Okwen, Tariro Kutadza, Walter Chikanya, Marc Choisy, Peiling Yap
INTRODUCTION: Citizen science (CS) is an emerging approach in public health to harness the collective intelligence of individuals to augment traditional scientific efforts. However, citizens' viewpoint, especially the hard-to-reach population, is lacking in current outbreak-related literature. We aim to understand the awareness, readiness and feasibility of outbreak-related CS, including digitally enabled CS, in low-income and middle-income countries. METHODS: This mixed-method study was conducted in nine countries between October 2022 and June 2023...
March 19, 2024: BMJ Global Health
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Yikai Feng, Tran Diep Tuan, Junyi Shi, Zhuo Li, Mailikezhati Maimaitiming, Yinzi Jin, Zhijie Zheng
INTRODUCTION: One of the ultimate goals of strengthening the health system is to achieve health equity. Vietnam is considered one of the 'fast-track countries' to achieve the health-related Millennium Development Goals, but research on its equity strategies remains inadequate. METHODS: Using Vietnamese official health statistics, we investigated inequity in four dimensions including health resources, service delivery, service utilisation and residents' health status from the perspectives of income levels, poverty rates and subnational regions...
March 18, 2024: BMJ Global Health
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Isaac Yeboah, Duah Dwomoh, Rawlance Ndejjo, Steven Ndugwa Kabwama, Fidelia Ohemeng, Sylvia Akpene Takyi, Ibrahim Issah, Serwaa Akoto Bawuah, Rhoda Kitti Wanyenze, Julius Fobil
INTRODUCTION: Evidence suggests that non-pharmaceutical interventions such as lockdown policies, restriction of movement and physical distancing to control the novel COVID-19 contributed to the decline in utilisation of essential health services. We explored healthcare providers' and policy-makers' experiences of the barriers, interventions and response actions that contributed to ensuring the continuity of essential health services during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana to help inform future practice and policy...
March 15, 2024: BMJ Global Health
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