Abstract The 2023 WHO guideline on the prevention and management of wasting and nutritional oedema (acute malnutrition) in infants and children under 5 years has a broad scope aligned with WHO’s ...

Summary box The 2023 WHO guideline on wasting and nutritional oedema provides the first systematically developed evidence-informed set of recommendations and good practice statements for children 6–59 ...

Wasting describes a condition where a child is dangerously thin for their height, typically due to sudden and severe weight loss. It greatly raises the risk of death but can be effectively treated. In ...

Trends and spatial patterns of human immunodeficiency virus prevalence among men and women aged 15–49 in Sierra Leone: evidence from the 2008, 2013 and 2019 Demographic and Health Surveys (5 August, ...

Epidemics continue to pose a significant public health threat to populations in low and middle-income countries. However, little is known about the appropriateness and performance of response ...

The endemic discrimination in global health has attracted unprecedented attention since the killing of George Floyd and other black people in the USA in 2020. Several academic journals mostly in ...

Background The design of this study was intended to evaluate the use of saliva as a reliable non-invasive tool for the genomic and immunological surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 infection in the Republic of ...

Correction for public health and emergency workforce: a roadmap for WHO and partner contributions ...

Suba EJ, Ortega RE, Mutch DG. Unethical randomised controlled trial of cervical screening in India: US Freedom of Information Act disclosures. BMJ Global Health 2017;2:e000177. doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2016 ...

The EDCTP community meets biennially to share research findings, plan new partnerships and collaborations, and discuss maximising impact from EDCTP-funded research. In 2018, the Ninth EDCTP Forum took ...

The value of contact tracing and isolation in mitigation of COVID-19 epidemic: findings from outbreak investigation of COVID-19 onboard Nile Cruise Ship, Egypt, March 2020 (15 July, 2022 ...

Boyce MR, Sorrell EM, Standley CJ. An early analysis of the World Bank’s Pandemic Fund: a new fund for pandemic prevention, preparedness and response. BMJ Global Health 2023;8:e011172. doi: ...