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Critical voices on unfairly high mpox and other vaccine prices open the debate on the ‘right price’ to be paid to private vaccine suppliers. We apply compound real options analysis as a more ...
Background In the past decades, Africa witnessed increased biomedical research and transnational collaborations making the continent vulnerable to exploitation. Research ethics committees (REC) are ...
Anthony Fish Hodgson, Jason Bantjes, Jane Pirkis, et al. Alcohol restrictions and suicide rates in South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic: results of a natural experiment. BMJ Glob Health ...
Background Ethics in research is one of the core pillars of responsible conduct of research which promotes good research practices and protects the rights of participants. Good ethical practices in ...
Background Tuberculosis (TB), HIV and Helminths are serious overlapping public health problems in sub-Saharan Africa. This triple burden may lead to accelerated disease progression. Although HIV is ...
One of the many things that the global health community is in agreement about is that we really do not know how to define global health – and this is not for want of attempts.1, 2 My favourite ...
Since early 2020, global stakeholders have highlighted the significant gendered consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, including increases in the risk of gender-based violence (GBV). Researchers have ...
Despite a proliferation of digital health interventions designed to support the improved coverage and quality of community health worker services in India, few have achieved significant impact at ...
Factors associated with successful implementation of Clean Cut: a perioperative surgical site infection prevention quality improvement programme—a cohort study of low-resource hospitals (3 March, 2025 ...
Background The National Health Research Authority (NHRA) is implementing a program under the name institutionalization of research and knowledge translation (KT) in Zambia as a means to enhance ...
Background The PregnAnZI-2 trial was conducted in The Gambia and in Burkina Faso to evaluate the efficacy of intrapartum azithromycin (AZI) to reduce neonatal sepsis and mortality and maternal ...
Donkin A, Goldblatt P, Allen J, et al. Global action on the social determinants of health. BMJ Glob Health 2017;3:e000603. doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2017-000603. This article was originally published in ...