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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on seven neglected tropical diseases: a model-based analysis

World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

Since the launch of the 2012–2020 World Health Organization (WHO) road map for the control, elim-ination and eradication of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) (1), considerable progress against NTDs has been made. Between 2010 and 2020, the number of people requiring interventions against NTDs glo... more

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Access to Heart Failure Medicines in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: An Analysis of Essential Medicines Lists, Availability, Price, and Affordability

Agarwal, A.; Husain, M.J.; Datta, B. et al. Circulation: Heart Failure (2022) CC

Heart failure (HF) is a leading global public health problem with >64 million prevalent cases globally. Patients with HF with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) from low- and middle-income countries experience a 22% to 58% higher 1-year mortality rate than those in high-income countries.1 Guideline-d... more

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Women's Empowerment and Spousal Violence in Relation to Health Outcomes in Nepal: Further analysis of the 2011 Nepal Demographic and Health Survey

Tuladhar S., Khanal K.R., K.C. Lila, Ghimire P.K., Onta K. Nepal Ministry of Health and Population, New ERA, and ICF International (2013) C2

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Mental health systems in selected low- and middle-income countries: a WHO-AIMS cross-national analysis

World Health Organization WHO WHO (2009) C_WHO

Data on the essential building blocks of mental health systems, including mental health governance, financing, service delivery, human resources and information, are reported. For mental health planning, it is important to know not only the level of resources in these six areas, but also how thos... more

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Anti-interleukin-6 therapies for hospitalized patients with COVID-19: a protocol for a prospective meta-analysis of randomized trials

World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

19 February 2021 The overall objective of this prospective meta-analyses (PMA) is to estimate the effect of anti-IL-6 therapy compared with usual care in hospitalized patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19. The primary comparison is of the class effect of anti-IL-6 therapies. It will also es... more

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The Role of Antenatal Care in Predicting Health Facility Delivery among Women in Kenya: Further Analysis of Data from the 2008-09 KDHS

Obago, Irene T ICF International (2013) C2

DHS Working Papers No. 86

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Catastrophic health expenditure during the COVID-19 pandemic in five countries: a time-series analysis

Haakenstad A., Bintz C., Knight M., et al. Lancet Global Health (2023) CC

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted health systems in 2020, but it is unclear how financial hardship due to out-of-pocket (OOP) health-care costs was affected. We analysed catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) in 2020 in five countries with available household expenditure data: Belarus, Mexico, Peru, R... more

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Clinical and epidemiological characteristics associated with unfavorable tuberculosis treatment outcomes in TB-HIV co-infected patients in Brazil: a hierarchical polytomous analysis

T. N. do Pradoa; J.t V. Rajand; A. E. Miranda; et al. The Brazilian Journal of infectious diseases; Elsevier Editora Ltda. (2016) C2

braz j infect dis 2 0 1 7;2 1(2):162–170 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bjid.2016.11.006 1413-8670/© 2016 Sociedade Brasileira de Infectologia. Published by Elsevier Editora Ltda. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

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Child and adolescent mental health policy in South Africa: history, current policy development and implementation, and policy analysis

S. Mokitimi; M. Schneider; P. J. de Vries International Journal of Mental Health Systems; BioMed Central (2018) CC

Mental health problems represent the greatest global burden of disease among children and adolescents. There is, however, lack of policy development and implementation for child and adolescent mental health (CAMH), particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) where children and adolescen... more

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Examining the effects of HIV self-testing compared to standard HIV testing services: a systematic review and meta-analysis

C. C. Johnson; C. Kennedy; V. Fonner; et al. Journal of the International AIDS Society (2017) C2

Johnson CC et al. Journal of the International AIDS Society 2017, 20:21594 http://www.jiasociety.org/index.php/jias/article/view/21594 | https://doi.org/10.7448/IAS.20.1.21594

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Health workers’ adoption of digital health technology in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis

World Health Organization WHO (2025) C_WHO

Digital health technology can make health systems more efficient and sustainable, facilitating the provision of high-quality care across a wide range of contexts and for diverse population health needs. The pace of innovation in digital health is rapid and constant, with new interventions bein... more

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Global estimates of the need for rehabilitation based on the Global Burden of Disease study 2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

Cieza A, Causey K, Kamenov K; et al. The Lancet (2020) CC

The Lancet. 1 December 2020. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)32340-0. To our knowledge, this is the first study to produce a global estimate of the need for rehabilitation services and to show that at least one in every three people in the world needs rehabilitation at some point in the course of their ... more

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Developmental disabilities among children younger than 5 years in 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

Global Research on Developmental Disabilities Collaborators (2018) CC

The Lancet Global Health, Vol. 6, No. 10 Published: August 29, 2018

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The impact of HIV and antiretroviral therapy on TB risk in children: a systematic review and meta-analysis

P. J. Dodd; A. J. Prendergas; C. Beecroft; et al. BMJ Journals (2017) CC

BMJ,Dodd PJ, et al. Thorax 2017;72:559–575. doi:10.1136/thoraxjnl-2016-209421

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Domestic and donor financing for tuberculosis care and control in low-income and middle-income countries: an analysis of trends, 2002–11, and requirements to meet 2015 targets

Floyd, K.; C. Fitzpatrick; A. Pantoja et al. Lancet Glob Health (2013) C2

Progress in tuberculosis control worldwide, including achievement of 2015 global targets, requires adequate financing sustained for many years. WHO began yearly monitoring of tuberculosis funding in 2002. We used data reported to WHO to analyse tuberculosis funding from governments and international... more

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Use of the WHO Access, Watch, and Reserve classification to define patterns of hospital antibiotic use (AWaRe): an analysis of paediatric survey data from 56 countries

Hsia Y., B. R Lee, A. Versporten, et al The Lancet (2019) C2

Improving the quality of hospital antibiotic use is a major goal of WHO’s global action plan to combat antimicrobial resistance. The WHO Essential Medicines List Access, Watch, and Reserve (AWaRe) classification could facilitate simple stewardship interventions that are widely applicable globally.... more

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Prevention of sexual transmission of Ebola in Liberia through a national semen testing and counselling programme for survivors: an analysis of Ebola virus RNA results and behavioural data

Soka, M.J.; M.J. Choi; A. Baller, et al. (2016) CC

The Lancet Global Health 2016 Published Online August 30, 2016 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(16)30175-9

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Facility Delivery and Postnatal Care Services Use among Mothers Who Attended Four or More Antenatal Care Visits in Ethiopia: Further Analysis of the 2016 Demographic and Health Survey

Abeje Fekadu, G. F. Ambaw Getahun; and S. Ayenalam Kidanie (2018) CC

Demographic and Health Surveys, Working Paper

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Task-sharing interventions for improving control of diabetes in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Linju Maria, J.; et al. (2020) CC

Lancet Glob Health 2020Published OnlineNovember 27, 2020 https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(20)30449-6

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Core components, concepts and strategies for parasitic and vector-borne disease elimination with afocus on schistosomiasis: A landscape analysis

Monnier, N.; IT. Barth-Jaegg, S. Knopp, et al. (2020) CC

PLoS Negl TropDis14(10): e0008837. https://doi.org/ 10.1371/journal.pntd.0008837. We conducted alandscape analysis on parasitic and vector-borne disease elimination approaches with the aim toidentify evidence-based strategies, core components and key concepts for achieving and sustaining schistosom... more