C O V I D-19 has demonstrated that most countries’ public health systems and capacities are insufficiently prepared to prevent a localised infectious disease outbreak from spreading. Strengthening ...

Diversity in global health workforce and leadership has received a lot of attention, particularly in terms of gender and representation of low/middle-income countries in global health institutions ...

Equity is widely accepted as the central goal of all global health endeavours.1 And diversity and inclusion are critical, since all practitioners of global health will readily endorse the need to ...

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.

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 ...

Malnutrition in all its forms—both underweight and micronutrient deficiencies, as well as overweight, obesity and associated non-communicable disease—is a global health issue, with the majority of ...

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 ...

Following the development and roll-out of the measles vaccine in 1954, measles incidence dropped to low levels in areas where measles vaccines with high coverage were introduced. The Measles and ...

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 ...