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 ...

Introduction There are persistent gaps in access to affordable medicines. The WHO Model List of Essential Medicines (EML) includes medicines considered necessary for functional health systems. Methods ...

Clinical research conducted to Good Clinical Practice (GCP) standards is increasingly being undertaken in resource-constrained low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) settings. This presents ...

Introduction COVID-19 vaccination coverage in South Africa (RSA) remains low despite increased access to vaccines. On 1 November 2021, RSA introduced the Vooma Voucher programme which provided a small ...

Oral disorder has the highest global prevalence rate of all diseases and has been increasing over the past two decades. In addition to inadequate service provisions and funding, existing monitoring ...

COVID-19 is mutating; unknowns about virulent COVID-19 variants can result in devastating effects on pandemic control and management. Scientific evidence on human–pathogen interactions, such as data ...

Introduction Women researchers find it more difficult to publish in academic journals than men, an inequity that affects women’s careers and was exacerbated during the pandemic, particularly for women ...

Introduction Tracking progress towards Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3·6 of reducing traffic deaths and serious injuries poses a measurement challenge in most low-income and middle-income ...

Since 2019, the Chinese central government has taken significant steps to centralize national purchasing power and has implemented a pooled procurement system. In this paper, we provide an in-depth ...

In the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, countries across the globe undertook several stringent movement restrictions to prevent the virus spread. In April 2020, around 3.9 billion people in 90 countries ...

Clinical practice guidelines have the potential to improve quality of care through improving decision making and antibiotic prescription. These guidelines are particularly important in areas with ...

Somalia’s humanitarian and development efforts heavily rely on U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID’s) US$1.1 billion annual support, addressing health, food security and governance, but ...