Background Marburg virus disease (MVD), a highly fatal haemorrhagic fever with a fatality rate that can reach up to 88%. The ...

The Alma-Ata ‘Health for All’ Declaration of 1978 emphasised community participation in health systems and the need to ‘bring ...

The publish-or-perish paradigm puts pressure on academics worldwide to produce internationally visible research, with journal ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Nigeria, two of Africa’s largest and most populous nations, present unique yet ...

International donors are transnational actors that pursue various strategies to influence policy decisions in Global South ...

With his clarion call for ‘A World Without Measles’ in 2024, epidemiologist and immunisation specialist Jon Kim Andrus ...

Background Catastrophic healthcare expenditure (CHE) poses significant financial burdens on households globally, particularly ...

Theories of change (ToCs) describe how interventions can bring about long-term outcomes through a logical sequence of intermediate outcomes and have been used to design and measure the impact of ...

Background Nutrition is a critical determinant of tuberculosis (TB), providing a protective effect at high body mass index (BMI) and incurring an increased risk of TB disease at low BMI. Global ...

Background More complex humanitarian emergencies have a profound impact on a rapidly growing ageing population. There are few data available on the mental health conditions of older people in ...

When making decisions about complex interventions, guideline development groups need to factor in the sociocultural acceptability of an intervention, as well as contextual factors that impact on the ...

Objectives To evaluate the relative cost-effectiveness of introducing the RTS,S malaria vaccine in sub-Saharan Africa compared with further scale-up of existing interventions. Design A mathematical ...