Background Affordable medicines facility-malaria (AMFm) program and subsequently Co-payment mechanism were developed to help increase access to quality assured Artemisinin Combination Therapies (ACTs) ...

Introduction Geographical accessibility is important against health equity, particularly for less developed countries as Nepal. It is important to identify the disparities in geographical ...

Objectives Our study aimed to provide global burden and temporal trends in the incidence, prevalence, and disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) of osteoarthritis (OA) among postmenopausal women from ...

The 2015 World Health Organization Global Action Plan and other international policy documents have stressed the need for a 'whole of United Nations approach' in addressing antimicrobial resistance ...

Background The caesarean section (CS) rate continues to increase across high-income, middle-income and low-income countries. We present current global and regional CS rates, trends since 1990 and ...

Introduction Health researchers from low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) are under-represented in the academic literature. Scientific writing and publishing interventions may help ...

Background Development assistance for health (DAH) plays a vital role in supporting health programmes in low- and middle-income countries. While DAH has historically focused on infectious diseases and ...

Introduction The WHO recommends community mobilisation with women’s groups practising participatory learning and action (PLA) to improve neonatal survival in high-mortality settings. This intervention ...

Dengue vaccine and enhanced dengue disease. Dengue poses a significant public health problem in the tropics and subtropics with as many as 390 million infections annually.1 After decades of research, ...

Responsiveness is a key objective of national health systems. Responsive health systems anticipate and adapt to existing and future health needs, thus contributing to better health outcomes. Of all ...

Left-behind children are children whose parents, or one of them, have left their children behind in their hometown or home countries for work for more than 6 months and are cared for by grandparents ...

Cervical cancer remains a significant public health challenge in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR), with significant implications for women’s health and sustainable development. Despite being ...