Severe non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM), sickle cell disease (SCD), thalassaemia and ...

Background Tobacco use imposes significant economic burden, particularly in low and middle-income countries, diverting ...

Introduction Obesity and its downstream non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are the greatest health challenges of the 21st century, even in low-income and middle-income countries such as India. As ...

Objective To explore the prior knowledge and attitudes of community health workers (CHWs) in Ecuador regarding chronic ...

The full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces, which began in February 2022, has precipitated an unprecedented crisis with wide-ranging implications for the region and beyond. The negative ...

Without timely and appropriate treatment, hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection can progress to liver fibrosis, cirrhosis or hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), contributing significantly to global ...

Sudan, a low-income country in Africa, faces a weak healthcare system and high malaria prevalence. The epidemiology of malaria is influenced by emerging resistance of parasites and vectors, ...

Background The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an unprecedented global research effort to build a body of knowledge that can inform mitigation strategies. We carried out a bibliometric analysis to ...

Acute respiratory tract infections (ARIs) are a leading cause of ill-health and death globally. Individual or multiple micronutrients have been shown to modulate immune function and affect the risk ...

Guideline developers are increasingly dealing with more difficult decisions concerning whether to recommend complex interventions in complex and highly variable health systems. There is greater ...

Introduction Governance is one of the most important aspects for strong primary healthcare (PHC) service delivery. To achieve the targets for the Sustainable Development Goals, good governance may ...

The concept of stringent regulatory authorities (SRAs) is due to be replaced in the middle or long-term by the concept of ‘WHO-listed authority’ (WLA). The WHO started in 2016 a formal Global ...