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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Impact of a malaria intervention package in schools on Plasmodium infection, anaemia and cognitive function in schoolchildren in Mali: a pragmatic cluster-randomised trial ...

Riumallo- Herl C, Aguila E. The effect of old-age pensions on health care utilization patterns and insurance uptake in Mexico. BMJ Global Health 2019;4:e001771. doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2019-001771.

Background Tuberculosis (TB) disease remains undiagnosed or unreported in approximately 4.2 million people annually. To address these “missing millions”, we assessed the feasibility and impact of a ...

Background During malaria in pregnancy (MiP), Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes sequester in the placenta, causing placental malaria (PM) and poor pregnancy outcomes, including low ...

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 ...

Usage of social media in epidemic intelligence activities in the WHO, Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean (28 June, 2022 ...

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, ...

Introduction With maternal mortality ratios higher than 100 per 100,000 live births in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), reducing these deaths features high on international public health ...

Background Tuberculosis (TB)-affected communities are often highly vulnerable, with social, economic, and biological factors increasing risk of TB and other chronic conditions, whilst impeding ...