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BMJ Global Health
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The Role of Governance in Implementing Sustainable Global Health Interventions: Review of health system integration for integrated community case management (iCCM) of childhood illnesses
Improving health outcomes in countries with the greatest burden of under-5 child mortality requires implementing innovative approaches like integrated community case management (iCCM) to improve coverage and access for hard-to-reach populations. ICCM impr
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COVID-19 in the Middle East and North Africa region: an urgent call for reliable, disaggregated and openly shared data
Most Arab countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region are not publicly reporting comprehensive and disaggregated epidemiological data on COVID-19. Long-standing underinvestment and undervaluation of data is exemplified by the COVID-19 pand
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Factors Influencing Undernutrition Among Children Under 5 Years from Cocoa-Growing Communities in Bougainville
In Papua New Guinea, half of the children under the age of five are undernourished. This is more than double the global average. By using data from a comprehensive 2017 cross-sectional livelihoods survey in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, this stud
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Childhood Morbidity and its Determinants: Evidence from 31 countries in sub-Saharan Africa
The global under-five mortality rate reduced from 93 per 1000 live births in 1990 to 39 per 1000 live births in 2018. Still, the rate increased in sub-Saharan Africa from 31% in 1990 to 54% in 2018. One of the main causes to these deaths is morbidity. In
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Delivering Infectious Disease Interventions to Women and Children in Conflict Settings: A systematic review
In countries and regions across the world, there are significant gaps in access to infectious disease interventions within health systems. In some instances, these are further impeded by war, civil unrest and political violence. There is an urgent need to
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Mitigating the Impact of COVID-19 on Children's Surgery in Africa
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. The virus has now spread across the globe and is a common threat to the health of everyone. Some countries in Africa have baseline weaknesses in healthcare resource allocation,
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Effects of Terrorist Attacks on Access to Maternal Healthcare Services: A national longitudinal study in Burkina Faso
Improvements in access to healthcare are likely to disappear if new barriers are introduced or former barriers are reinstituted. Common barriers for women's access to healthcare are user-fees and distance as well as poor quality. One aspect that remains u
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The Health of Internally Displaced Children in Sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review
Around 41,3 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) were located around the world at the end of 2018. The same year, internal displacement in sub-Saharan Africa was higher than in any other region, with approximately 7,4 million people displaced due t
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From Words to Actions: Systematic review of interventions to promote sexual and reproductive health of persons with disabilities in low- and middle-income countries
Persons with disabilities have the same sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) as non-disabled persons. Despite this, they face numerous barriers in their access to sexual and reproductive health services, which ultimately violates their rights.
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Learning from Exemplars in Global Health: A road map for mitigating indirect effects of COVID-19 on maternal and child health
To minimize these negative indirect effects, countries will need to consider all domains of health systems, including demand, supply, resources, and social determinants. To this end, learning from countries that have improved health outcomes amid other cr
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Not Just Money: What mothers value in conditional cash transfer programs in India
In low- and middle-income countries, conditional cash transfers have functioned as an important policy tool used to increase demand for key maternal and child health services. However, the increase of service use through these programs has had variable su
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The Socioeconomic Dynamics of Trends in Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting Across Africa
This article explores the socioeconomic dynamics of changing prevalence in female genital mutilation-cutting (FGM/C) across Africa. Among the findings is the suggestion that, as countries transition from higher to lower prevalence of FGM/C, the socioecono