Over a year has passed since large-scale armed conflict erupted in Sudan in April 2023, plunging the country into full-scale war and a severe humanitarian, infrastructure and healthcare crisis. Sudan ...

Summary box Despite the potential benefits of HIV self-testing (HIVST), several challenges contribute to poor linkage to HIV care among HIVST individuals in sub-Saharan Africa. The challenges to ...

Infectious diseases place an unacceptable and disproportionate social and economic burden on low-income countries. National disease control programmes have the difficult task of allocating limited ...

‘ We know what we have to do, but we don't know how to do it’ has been a recurring comment among global health actors for a long time. In 2010, for example, the United Nations affirmed that ‘we know ...

Strengthening evidence to inform health systems: opportunities for the WHO and partners to accelerate progress on non-communicable diseases ...

In global health, researchers and decision makers, many of whom have medical, epidemiology or biostatistics background, are increasingly interested in evaluating the implementation of health ...

Global research and development (R&D) pipelines for diseases that disproportionately affect African countries appear to be inadequate, with governments struggling to prioritise investment in R&D. This ...

Mental health remains one of the most neglected areas of healthcare in Chad, despite a high and growing burden of psychological distress driven by conflict, forced displacement, poverty and ...

Over 10 million infants under 6 months of age worldwide are at risk of poor growth and development (henceforth ‘infants u6m’). 1 Risks include short-term mortality and non-communicable disease in ...

Introduction Disparities in life expectancy between rural and urban populations are well established but how it varies with epidemics and pandemics remains poorly understood. We aimed to quantify the ...

The economic evaluation of healthcare interventions requires an assessment of whether the improvement in health outcomes they offer exceeds the improvement in health that would have been possible if ...

Economic evaluations of interventions are critical for informing health recommendations, particularly in resource-limited settings. To ensure transparent decision-making, the Guideline Development ...