The challenge of ensuring elderly people can access their health insurance entitlements: a mixed methods study on the Republic of Srpska’s Protector of Patients’ Health Insurance Entitlements (15 ...

Background In the past decades, Africa witnessed increased biomedical research and transnational collaborations making the continent vulnerable to exploitation. Research ethics committees (REC) are ...

Anthony Fish Hodgson, Jason Bantjes, Jane Pirkis, et al. Alcohol restrictions and suicide rates in South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic: results of a natural experiment. BMJ Glob Health ...

COVID-19 disproportionately affects the poor and vulnerable. Community health workers are poised to play a pivotal role in fighting the pandemic, especially in countries with less resilient health ...

Background Ethics in research is one of the core pillars of responsible conduct of research which promotes good research practices and protects the rights of participants. Good ethical practices in ...

One of the many things that the global health community is in agreement about is that we really do not know how to define global health – and this is not for want of attempts.1, 2 My favourite ...

Despite a proliferation of digital health interventions designed to support the improved coverage and quality of community health worker services in India, few have achieved significant impact at ...

Introduction Digital adherence technologies (DATs) may enable person-centred tuberculosis (TB) treatment monitoring; however, implementation challenges may undermine their effectiveness. Using the ...

Introduction Globally, tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the leading infectious causes of death, with 1.3 million deaths. Digital adherence technologies (DATs) have the potential to provide ...

Background The National Health Research Authority (NHRA) is implementing a program under the name institutionalization of research and knowledge translation (KT) in Zambia as a means to enhance ...

High-burden cholera outbreaks, spreading beyond the traditional cholera-endemic countries, have been reported since 2021 in the WHO African region. Member states in the region have committed to the ...

Background In 2021, over one million children developed tuberculosis, resulting in 214 000 deaths, largely due to inadequate diagnosis and treatment. The diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis is ...