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Commentary

Noma as a neglected tropical disease: an opportunity to reconsider neglect in global health

Elysium Noma Survivors Association, Izzett D, Izzett B, Trotter A, Nunes J,  et al.
2025-08-03 • BMJ Global Health
2025-08-03 • BMJ Global Health
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Research

Mental health of older adults in humanitarian settings in low- and middle-income countries: a retrospective analysis from Médecins sans Frontières-supported mental health services, 2019–2024

van Boetzelaer E, Keating P, Wasara N, Rodriguez E, Escobio F,  et al.
2025-07-05 • BMJ Global Health
2025-07-05 • BMJ Global Health

BACKGROUND

More complex humanitarian emergencies have a profound impact on a rapidly growing ageing population. There are few data available on the mental healt...

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Short Report

Integrating anticipatory action in disease outbreak preparedness and response in the humanitarian sector

Alcayna T, Kellerhaus F, Tremblay L, Fletcher C, Goodermote R,  et al.
2025-07-01 • BMJ Global Health
2025-07-01 • BMJ Global Health

In the humanitarian sector, anticipatory action entails acting ahead of predicted hazardous events to prevent or mitigate potential impacts and needs. It leverages early warnings to b...

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Research

High mortality and violence among refugees and returnees from West Darfur, Sudan arriving in Chad, 2023: results from three retrospective mortality surveys

Simons E, Ouedraogo P, Garnier C, Nicolet C, Sayyad-Hilario J,  et al.
2025-06-01 • BMJ Global Health
2025-06-01 • BMJ Global Health

INTRODUCTION

Fighting erupted on 15 April 2023 in Sudan between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. By September 2023, more than 420 000 people ...

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Review

Incentives in immunisation campaigns in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review mapping evidence on effectiveness and unintended consequences

Saunders MJ, Pereboom M, Alvarez JL, Sherlock M, Gadroen K
2025-06-01 • BMJ Global Health
2025-06-01 • BMJ Global Health

INTRODUCTION

Various incentive programmes are being used to improve immunisation uptake, despite limited understanding of their effectiveness and potential unin...

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Review

Community resilience to health emergencies: a scoping review

van Kessel G, Milanese S, Dizon J, de Vries DH, MacGregor H,  et al.
2025-04-01 • BMJ Global Health
2025-04-01 • BMJ Global Health

BACKGROUND

There is recognition of the importance of community resilience in mitigating lo...

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Research

Beyond COVID-19, the case for collecting, analysing and using sex-disaggregated data and gendered data to inform outbreak response: a scoping review

Gales M, Yonally Phillips EL, Zilversmit Pao L, Dubray C, Rodriguez Ribas Elizalde C,  et al.
2025-01-19 • BMJ Global Health
2025-01-19 • BMJ Global Health

INTRODUCTION

Understanding sex and gender differences during outbreaks is critical to delivering an effective response. Although recommendations and minimum req...

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Commentary

Critical failings in humanitarian response: a cholera outbreak in Kumer Refugee Camp, Ethiopia, 2023

Winkler NE, Muhie JM, Demlie YW, Berneh AA, Demessie BS,  et al.
2024-12-01 • BMJ Global Health
2024-12-01 • BMJ Global Health
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Commentary

Caught between violence: Mpox virus and the perils of neglect in Africa

Evaborhene NA, Oga JO, Adebayo YA, Runyowa N, Okorie CE,  et al.
2024-11-01 • BMJ Global Health
2024-11-01 • BMJ Global Health
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Commentary

A call to bridge the diagnostic gap: diagnostic solutions for neonatal sepsis in low- and middle-income countries

Gleeson B, Ferreyra C, Palamountain K, Jacob ST, Spotswood N,  et al.
2024-09-10 • BMJ Global Health
2024-09-10 • BMJ Global Health
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Review

The Pandemic Treaty, the Pandemic Fund, and the Global Commons: our scepticism

Evaborhene NA, Udokanma EE, Adebisi YA, Okorie CE, Kafuko Z,  et al.
2023-02-01 • BMJ Global Health
2023-02-01 • BMJ Global Health
The call to strengthen global health governance against future outbreaks through a binding treaty on pandemics has attracted global attention and opinion. Yet, few of these perspectives ...
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Research

Long-lasting insecticidal nets provide protection against malaria for only a single year in Burundi, an African highland setting with marked malaria seasonality

Van Bortel W, Mariën J, Jacobs BKM, Sinzinkayo D, Sinarinzi P,  et al.
2022-12-01 • BMJ Global Health
2022-12-01 • BMJ Global Health
BACKGROUND
Long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) are one of the key interventions in the global fight against malaria. Since 2014, mass distribution campaigns of LLINs aim for unive...
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Commentary

Duty of care and health worker protections in the age of Ebola: lessons from Médecins Sans Frontières

McDiarmid M, Crestani R
2019-08-31 • BMJ Global Health
2019-08-31 • BMJ Global Health
Health workers were differentially infected during the 2014 to 2016 Ebola outbreak with an incidence rate of 30 to 44/1000 depending on their job duties, compared to the wider population...
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Research

Who is telling the story? A systematic review of authorship for infectious disease research conducted in Africa, 1980-2016

Mbaye R, Gebeyehu R, Hossmann S, Mbarga NF, Bih-Neh E,  et al.
2019-10-18 • BMJ Global Health
2019-10-18 • BMJ Global Health
INTRODUCTION
Africa contributes little to the biomedical literature despite its high burden of infectious diseases. Global health research partnerships aimed at addressing Africa-end...
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Research

The availability of global guidance for the promotion of women’s, newborns’, children’s and adolescents’ health and nutrition in conflicts

Aboubakar S, Evers ES, Kobeissi L, Francis L, Najjemba R,  et al.
2020-11-01 • BMJ Global Health
2020-11-01 • BMJ Global Health
BACKGROUND
Significant global gains in sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health and nutrition (SRMNCAH&N) will be difficult unless conflict settings are a...
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Commentary

Snakebites and COVID-19: two crises, one research and development opportunity

Martins D, Ribeiro I, Potet J
2021-10-25 • BMJ Global Health
2021-10-25 • BMJ Global Health
SUMMARY POINTS

• Despite inherent differences, Snakebite Envenoming and COVID-19 have much in common in terms of research and development (R&D) challenges and opportunities.
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Research

Randomized, double-blinded, controlled non-inferiority trials evaluating the immunogenicity and safety of fractional doses of Yellow Fever vaccines in Kenya and Uganda

Kimathi D, Aitana J, Bejon P, Grais RF, Warimwe GM,  et al.
2019-11-20 • BMJ Global Health
2019-11-20 • BMJ Global Health
Introduction: Yellow fever is endemic in specific regions of sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas, with recent epidemics occurring on both continents. The yellow fever vaccine is effectiv...
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Research

The prevalence of noma in northwest Nigeria

Farley ES, Oyemakinde MJ, Schuurmans J, Ariti C, Saleh F,  et al.
2020-04-14 • BMJ Global Health
2020-04-14 • BMJ Global Health
BACKGROUND
Noma, a rapidly progressing infection of the oral cavity, mainly affects children. The true burden is unknown. This study reports estimated noma prevalence in children in ...
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Commentary

WHO is badly in need of reform, but it cannot replace NGOs like our own

Liu J
2017-01-25 • BMJ Global Health
2017-01-25 • BMJ Global Health
Journal Article
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Commentary

COVID-19 vaccine wastage in the midst of vaccine inequity: causes, types and practical steps

Lazarus JV, Abdool Karim SS, van Selm L, Doran J, Batista C,  et al.
2022-04-01 • BMJ Global Health
2022-04-01 • BMJ Global Health
SUMMARY BOX

-- There has been open and closed vial COVID-19 vaccine wastage in low-income, middle-income and high-income countries, with wastage rates of up to 30%.
-- Plans...