The global distribution of lymphatic filariasis, 2000-18: a geospatial analysis.

abstract：BACKGROUND:In malarious areas, pregnant women are more likely to have detectable malaria than are their non-pregnant peers, and the excess risk of infection varies with gravidity. Pregnant women attending antenatal clinic for their first visit are a potential pragmatic sentinel group to track the intensity of malaria t...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： van Eijk AM,Hill J,Noor AM,Snow RW,ter Kuile FO

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The public health community has tried for decades to show, through evidence-based research, that safe water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) and clean cooking fuels that reduce household air pollution are essential to safeguard health and save lives in low-income and middle-income countries. In the past 40 decades, the...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Ray I,Smith KR

更新日期：2021-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To contribute to the WHO initiative, VISION 2020: The Right to Sight, an assessment of global vision impairment in 2020 and temporal change is needed. We aimed to extensively update estimates of global vision loss burden, presenting estimates for 2020, temporal change over three decades between 1990-2020, an...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： GBD 2019 Blindness and Vision Impairment Collaborators.,Vision Loss Expert Group of the Global Burden of Disease Study.

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:On Dec 1, 2006, Mexico's public health-care insurance scheme, Seguro Popular, implemented the Medical Insurance Century XXI (SMSXXI) programme, to provide insurance to children younger than 5 years without social security. SMSXXI aims to increase access to health services, decrease out-of-pocket health expen...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Celhay P,Martinez S,Muñoz M,Perez M,Perez-Cuevas R

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Policies for early detection of breast cancer, including clinical breast examinations and mammographic screening, were introduced in Brazil in 2004, but their effect on disease stage at diagnosis is unclear. We aimed to assess whether these policies have led to a decrease in the prevalence of late-stage brea...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Dos-Santos-Silva I,De Stavola BL,Renna NL Junior,Nogueira MC,Aquino EML,Bustamante-Teixeira MT,Azevedo E Silva G

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The intermittent administration of seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) is recommended to prevent malaria among children aged 3-59 months in areas of the Sahel subregion in Africa. However, the cost-effectiveness and cost savings of SMC have not previously been evaluated in large-scale studies. METHODS:We...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Gilmartin C,Nonvignon J,Cairns M,Milligan P,Bocoum F,Winskill P,Moroso D,Collins D

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Brazil ranks second worldwide in total number of COVID-19 cases and deaths. Understanding the possible socioeconomic and ethnic health inequities is particularly important given the diverse population and fragile political and economic situation. We aimed to characterise the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil and a...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Baqui P,Bica I,Marra V,Ercole A,van der Schaar M

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Global rollout of dolutegravir-based antiretroviral therapy (ART) has been hampered in part by insufficient safety data in pregnancy. We compared birth outcomes among women initiating dolutegravir-based ART with those among women initiating efavirenz-based ART in pregnancy in Botswana. METHODS:In this obser...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Zash R,Jacobson DL,Diseko M,Mayondi G,Mmalane M,Essex M,Gaolethe T,Petlo C,Lockman S,Holmes LB,Makhema J,Shapiro RL

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Scrub typhus (caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi), murine typhus (caused by Rickettsia typhi), and leptospirosis are common causes of febrile illness in Asia; meningitis and meningoencephalitis are severe complications. However, scarce data exist for the burden of these pathogens in patients with CNS disease i...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Dittrich S,Rattanavong S,Lee SJ,Panyanivong P,Craig SB,Tulsiani SM,Blacksell SD,Dance DA,Dubot-Pérès A,Sengduangphachanh A,Phoumin P,Paris DH,Newton PN

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Improving access to reproductive health services and commodities is central to development. Efforts to assess progress on this front have been largely focused on national estimates, but such analyses can mask local disparities. We assessed progress in reproductive health services subnationally in India. MET...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： New JR,Cahill N,Stover J,Gupta YP,Alkema L

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Low blood glucose concentrations are common in sick children who present to hospital in low-resource settings and are associated with increased mortality. The cutoff blood glucose concentration for the diagnosis and treatment of hypoglycaemia currently recommended by WHO (2·5 mmol/L) is not evidence-based. W...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Baker T,Ngwalangwa F,Masanjala H,Dube Q,Langton J,Marrone G,Hildenwall H

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Few population-based studies of cerebral palsy have been done in low-income and middle-income countries. We aimed to examine cerebral palsy prevalence and subtypes, functional impairments, and presumed time of injury in children in Uganda. METHODS:In this population-based study, we used a nested, three-stag...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Kakooza-Mwesige A,Andrews C,Peterson S,Wabwire Mangen F,Eliasson AC,Forssberg H

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Trials of intermittent preventive treatment (IPTp) of malaria in pregnant women that compared dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine with the standard of care, sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, showed dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine was superior at preventing malaria infection, but not at improving birthweight. We aimed to ...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Roh ME,Kuile FOT,Rerolle F,Glymour MM,Shiboski S,Gosling R,Gutman J,Kakuru A,Desai M,Kajubi R,L'Ianziva A,Kamya MR,Dorsey G,Chico RM

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In 2002-04, we did a randomised controlled trial in southern Nepal, and reported that children born to mothers taking multiple micronutrient supplements during pregnancy had a mean birthweight 77 g greater than children born to mothers taking iron and folic acid supplements. Children born to mothers in the s...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Devakumar D,Chaube SS,Wells JC,Saville NM,Ayres JG,Manandhar DS,Costello A,Osrin D

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The need for multiple clinical visits remains a barrier to women accessing safe legal medical abortion services. Alternatives to routine clinic follow-up visits have not been assessed in rural low-resource settings. We compared the effectiveness of standard clinic follow-up versus home assessment of outcome ...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Iyengar K,Paul M,Iyengar SD,Klingberg-Allvin M,Essén B,Bring J,Soni S,Gemzell-Danielsson K

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Progress in reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health (RMNCH) in Kenya has been inconsistent over the past two decades, despite the global push to foster accountability, reduce child mortality, and improve maternal health in an equitable manner. Although several cross-sectional assessments have been ...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Keats EC,Ngugi A,Macharia W,Akseer N,Khaemba EN,Bhatti Z,Rizvi A,Tole J,Bhutta ZA

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:More timely estimates of malaria prevalence are needed to inform optimal control strategies and measure progress. Since 2014, Tanzania has implemented nationwide malaria screening for all pregnant women within the antenatal care system. We aimed to compare malaria test results during antenatal care to two po...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Kitojo C,Gutman JR,Chacky F,Kigadye E,Mkude S,Mandike R,Mohamed A,Reaves EJ,Walker P,Ishengoma DS

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The risk of severe COVID-19 if an individual becomes infected is known to be higher in older individuals and those with underlying health conditions. Understanding the number of individuals at increased risk of severe COVID-19 and how this varies between countries should inform the design of possible strateg...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Clark A,Jit M,Warren-Gash C,Guthrie B,Wang HHX,Mercer SW,Sanderson C,McKee M,Troeger C,Ong KL,Checchi F,Perel P,Joseph S,Gibbs HP,Banerjee A,Eggo RM,Centre for the Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases COVID-19 wo

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:2·6 million stillbirths occur annually worldwide. The association between malaria in pregnancy and stillbirth has yet to be comprehensively quantified. We aimed to quantify the association between malaria in pregnancy and stillbirth, and to assess the influence of malaria endemicity on the association. METH...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Moore KA,Simpson JA,Scoullar MJL,McGready R,Fowkes FJI

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Haiti has an integrated bite case management (IBCM) programme to counsel animal-bite victims on the risk of rabies and appropriate treatment, as well as the Haiti Animal Rabies Surveillance Program (HARSP) to examine the animals. We assessed the usefulness of the IBCM programme to promote best practices for ...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Etheart MD,Kligerman M,Augustin PD,Blanton JD,Monroe B,Fleurinord L,Millien M,Crowdis K,Fenelon N,Wallace RM

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Attainment of universal health coverage is a global health priority. The Myanmar Government has committed to attainment of universal health coverage by 2030, but progress so far has not been assessed. We aimed to estimate national and subnational health service coverage and financial risk protection. METHOD...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Han SM,Rahman MM,Rahman MS,Swe KT,Palmer M,Sakamoto H,Nomura S,Shibuya K

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As the incomes of many AIDS-burdened countries grow and donors' budgets for helping to fight the disease tighten, national governments and external funding partners increasingly face the following question: what is the capacity of countries that are highly affected by AIDS to finance their responses from dom...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Resch S,Ryckman T,Hecht R

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In 2007, WHO launched a global initiative for the elimination of mother-to-child transmission of syphilis (congenital syphilis). An important aspect of the initiative is strengthening surveillance to monitor progress towards elimination. In 2008, using a health systems model with country data inputs, WHO est...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Wijesooriya NS,Rochat RW,Kamb ML,Turlapati P,Temmerman M,Broutet N,Newman LM

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Amid rapid urbanisation, the HIV epidemic, and increasing rates of non-communicable diseases, people in sub-Saharan Africa are especially vulnerable to kidney disease. Little is known about the epidemiology of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in sub-Saharan Africa, so we did a systematic review and meta-analysis...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Stanifer JW,Jing B,Tolan S,Helmke N,Mukerjee R,Naicker S,Patel U

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Understanding the effects of socioeconomic disparities in health outcomes is important to implement specific preventive actions. We assessed socioeconomic disparities in mortality indicators in a rural South African population over the period 2001-13. METHODS:We used data from 21 villages of the Agincourt H...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Kabudula CW,Houle B,Collinson MA,Kahn K,Gómez-Olivé FX,Tollman S,Clark SJ

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:People who inject drugs (PWID) are a key population affected by the global HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) epidemics. HIV and HCV prevention interventions for PWID include needle and syringe programmes (NSP), opioid substitution therapy (OST), HIV counselling and testing, HIV antiretroviral therapy (ART), an...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Larney S,Peacock A,Leung J,Colledge S,Hickman M,Vickerman P,Grebely J,Dumchev KV,Griffiths P,Hines L,Cunningham EB,Mattick RP,Lynskey M,Marsden J,Strang J,Degenhardt L

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Detection of dengue virus antibodies is important for understanding future dengue virus risk and for prevaccination screening. We aimed to evaluate the performance of a dengue IgG indirect ELISA in determining dengue seroprevalence in a cohort of children in the Philippines, using a focus reduction neutralis...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Lopez AL,Adams C,Ylade M,Jadi R,Daag JV,Molloy CT,Agrupis KA,Kim DR,Silva MW,Yoon IK,White L,Deen J,de Silva AM

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Buruli ulcer can cause disfigurement and long-term loss of function. It is underdiagnosed and under-reported, and its current distribution is unclear. We aimed to synthesise and evaluate data on Buruli ulcer prevalence and distribution. METHODS:We did a systematic review of Buruli ulcer prevalence and used ...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Simpson H,Deribe K,Tabah EN,Peters A,Maman I,Frimpong M,Ampadu E,Phillips R,Saunderson P,Pullan RL,Cano J

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Children who are HIV-exposed uninfected (HEU) have higher morbidity and mortality than children who are HIV-unexposed and uninfected despite safer breastfeeding and improved maternal health with maternal antiretroviral therapy. We present the first global estimates of the population of children who are HEU (...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Slogrove AL,Powis KM,Johnson LF,Stover J,Mahy M

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many countries are implementing health system reforms to achieve universal health coverage (UHC) by 2030. To understand the progress towards UHC in Bangladesh, we estimated trends in indicators of the health service and of financial risk protection. We also estimated the probability of Bangladesh's achieving...

journal_title：The Lancet. Global health

authors： Rahman MS,Rahman MM,Gilmour S,Swe KT,Krull Abe S,Shibuya K

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00