Background The increasing number of clinical trials in developing countries providing solutions to the high burden of diseases leads to the vulnerability of study participants and their communities ...

Background Outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases frequently occur in low and middle-income countries (LMICs), requiring outbreak response immunisation (ORI) programmes for containment. To inform ...

Introduction Race and gender were intimately intertwined aspects of the colonial project, used as key categories of hierarchisation within both colonial and modern societies. As such, true ...

In stark contrast to its neighbours in Sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar reports an estimated HIV prevalence below 0.5%.1 HIV infections are perceived to be primarily concentrated in key populations.

Public health is a discipline grounded in science, trust and the careful stewardship of collective well-being. Leaders at its helm must represent these principles, as their decisions resonate far ...

Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted health systems around the world. The objectives of this study are to estimate the overall effect of the pandemic on essential health service use and ...

Introduction To examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mortality, we estimated excess all-cause mortality in 24 countries for 2020 and 2021, overall and stratified by sex and age.Methods Total ...

Introduction China initialised the expanded hepatitis A vaccination programme (EHAP) in 2008. However, the effectiveness of the programme remains unclear. We aimed to comprehensively evaluate the ...

Introduction The objective of this study is to examine the temporal trends and patterns of regional and socioeconomic disparities in cardiovascular disease (CVD) in Canada during 2005–2016.Methods A ...

Introduction Indoor residual spraying (IRS) and insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs) are cornerstone malaria prevention methods in Madagascar. This retrospective observational study uses routine data ...

Rising levels of inflation, debt and macrofiscal tightening are putting expenditures on the social sectors including health under immense scrutiny. Already, there are worrying signs of reductions in ...

The African Region reports the heaviest burden of public health emergencies globally. This paper presents an exploratory analysis of public health events data collected the past 22 years in the WHO ...