Mental Imagery to Reduce Alcohol-related harm in patients with alcohol use disorder and alcohol-related liver damaGE: the MIRAGE randomised pilot trial results by Victoria Allgar, Christopher Hayward, Ashwin Dhanda, Angela King, Annie Hawton, Ben Hudson, Crispin Musicha, Richard Parker, Wendy Ingram, Lynne Callaghan, Alison Jeffery, Laura Cocking, C Anne McCune, Elizabeth Goodwin, Hannah Allende, Jackie Andrade, Victoria Lavers, Joe Lomax, Christopher Rollinson, Jonny Wilks, E Siobhan Creanor, Matthew Bailey

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Characterising paediatric mortality during and after acute illness in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia: a secondary analysis of the CHAIN cohort using a machine learning approach by Diallo, AH, Sayeem Bin Shahid, ASM, Khan, AF, Saleem, AF, Singa, BO, Gnoumou, BS, Tigoi, C, Otieno, CA, Bourdon, C, Oduol, CO, Lancioni, CL, Manyasi, C, McGrath, CJ, Maronga, C, Lwanga, C, Brals, D, Ahmed, D, Mondal, D, Denno, DM, Mangale, DI, Chimezi, E, Mbale, E, Mupere, E, Mamun, GMS, Ouedraogo, I, Githinji, G, Berkley, JA, Njirammadzi, J, Mukisa, J, Thitiri, J, Haggstrom, J, Carreon, JD, Walson, JL, Jemutai, J, Tickell, KD, Shahrin, L, Mallewa, M, Hossain, MI, Chisti, MJ, Timbwa, M, Mburu, M, Ngari, MM, Ngao, N, Aber, P, Harawa, PP, Sukhtankar, P, Bandsma, RHJ, Bamouni, RM, Molyneux, S, Feldman, S

“…</p> <p><strong>Methods</strong> A cohort of 3101 children aged 2–24 months were recruited at admission to hospital for any acute illness in Bangladesh (Dhaka and Matlab Hospitals), Pakistan (Civil Hospital Karachi), Kenya (Kilifi, Mbagathi, and Migori Hospitals), Uganda (Mulago Hospital), Malawi (Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital), and Burkina Faso (Banfora Hospital) from November 2016 to January 2019. …”

Burden of enteric fever at three urban sites in Africa and Asia: a multicentre population-based study by Meiring, JE, Shakya, M, Khanam, F, Voysey, M, Phillips, MT, Tonks, S, Thindwa, D, Darton, TC, Dongol, S, Karkey, A, Zaman, K, Baker, S, Dolecek, C, Dunstan, SJ, Dougan, G, Holt, KE, Heyderman, RS, Qadri, F, Pitzer, VE, Basnyat, B, Gordon, MA, Clemens, J, Pollard, AJ

“…<br> <strong>Methods</strong> In this multicentre population-based study, we did a demographic census at three urban sites in Africa (Blantyre, Malawi) and Asia (Kathmandu, Nepal and Dhaka, Bangladesh) between June 1, 2016, and Sept 25, 2018. …”

Individual and community level predictors of women’s autonomy in health care decision-making among youth in East African countries: a multilevel analysis by Tewodros Getaneh Alemu, Desale Bihonegn Asmamaw, Wubshet Debebe Negash, Samrawit Mihret Fetene, Ever Siyoum Shewarega, Elsa Awoke Fentie, Rediet Eristu Teklu, Fantu Mamo Aragaw, Daniel Gashaneh Belay, Habitu Birhan Eshetu

“…This study was conducted to estimate the magnitude and the factors associated with autonomy in healthcare decision-making among youth in East African countries.Design and setting A population-based, cross-sectional study was conducted with data from the most recent Demographic and Health Surveys conducted in 11 East African countries (Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Comoros, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe) conducted from 2011 to 2019.Participants Weighted sample of 24 135 women aged 15–24 years.Primary outcomes Healthcare decision-making autonomy.Methods A multi-level logistic regression model was used to identify factors associated with women’s autonomy in making decisions about their healthcare. …”
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Methods for health workforce projection model: systematic review and recommended good practice reporting guideline by John Tayu Lee, Ian Crettenden, My Tran, Daniel Miller, Mark Cormack, Megan Cahill, Jinhu Li, Tomoko Sugiura, Fan Xiang

“…Results Our review identified 40 relevant studies, including 39 single countries analysis (in Australia, Canada, Germany, Ghana, Guinea, Ireland, Jamaica, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Lesotho, Malawi, New Zealand, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Singapore, Spain, Thailand, UK, United States), and one multiple country analysis (in 32 OECD countries). …”
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“We usually see a lot of delay in terms of coming for or seeking care”: an expert consultation on COVID testing and care pathways in seven low- and middle-income countries by Gabrielle Bonnet, John Bimba, Chancy Chavula, Harunavamwe N. Chifamba, Titus Divala, Andres G. Lescano, Mohammed Majam, Danjuma Mbo, Auliya A. Suwantika, Marco A. Tovar, Pragya Yadav, Elisabeth L. Corbett, Anna Vassall, Mark Jit

“…Methods We organized a qualitative consultation with ten experts from seven LMICs (India, Indonesia, Malawi, Nigeria, Peru, South Africa, and Zimbabwe) identified through purposive sampling. …”
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THE GLOBAL NEED AND AVAILABILITY OF PLASMA COAGULATION FACTORS VIII AND IX IN HEMOPHILIA CONTEXT: A GLOBAL HEALTH ESTIMATE REPORTING by ECDS Anjos, FR Ferreira, PHS Bermejo, MF Moreira, DN Prata

“…FIX : In the 21 sub-Saharan Africa countries reporting plasmatic FIX use, nine of them (Cote d'Ivoire, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Nigeria and Senegal) had 100% of unmet need, Mauritania had 94.6%, Sudan had 93.8%, South Africa had 66.6% and, in contrast, Mauritius had 26.5%. …”
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PCTAIRE Protein Kinase 1 (PCTK1) Suppresses Proliferation, Stemness, and Chemoresistance in Colorectal Cancer through the BMPR1B-Smad1/5/8 Signaling Pathway by Po-Li Wei, Chien-Yu Huang, Tung-Cheng Chang, Jang-Chun Lin, Cheng-Chin Lee, G. M. Shazzad Hossain Prince, Precious Takondwa Makondi, Angelina Wong-Ying Chui, Yu-Jia Chang

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Digital health in the era of COVID-19: Reshaping the next generation of healthcare by Emnet Getachew, Emnet Getachew, Tsegaye Adebeta, Seke G. Y. Muzazu, Seke G. Y. Muzazu, Loveness Charlie, Loveness Charlie, Bibie Said, Bibie Said, Hanna Amanuel Tesfahunei, Hanna Amanuel Tesfahunei, Catherine Lydiah Wanjiru, Joan Acam, Joan Acam, Violet Dismas Kajogoo, Samrawit Solomon, Mary Gorret Atim, Mary Gorret Atim, Tsegahun Manyazewal

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Policy stakeholder perspectives on barriers and facilitators to launching a community-wide mass drug administration program for soil-transmitted helminths by Amy Roll, Malvika Saxena, Elizabeth Orlan, Angelin Titus, Sanjay Kamlakar Juvekar, Marie-Claire Gwayi-Chore, Euripide Avokpaho, Félicien Chabi, Comlanvi Innocent Togbevi, Abiguel Belou Elijan, Providence Nindi, Judd L. Walson, Sitara S. R. Ajjampur, Moudachirou Ibikounlé, Khumbo Kalua, Kumudha Aruldas, Arianna Rubin Means

“…We conducted formative qualitative research in Benin, India, and Malawi to identify barriers and facilitators to successfully launching a cMDA program from the policy-stakeholder perspective. …”
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Outcomes of Echocardiography‐Detected Rheumatic Heart Disease: Validating a Simplified Score in Cohorts From Different Countries by Bruno R. Nascimento, Maria Carmo P. Nunes, Emily M. Lima, Amy E. Sanyahumbi, Nigel Wilson, Elizabeth Tilton, Marc G. W. Rémond, Graeme P. Maguire, Antonio Luiz P. Ribeiro, Peter N. Kazembe, Craig Sable, Andrea Z. Beaton

“…Methods and Results Patient‐level baseline and follow‐up data of children with latent RHD from 4 countries (Australia, n=62; Brazil, n=197; Malawi, n=40; New Zealand, n=94) were combined. A simplified echocardiographic scoring system previously developed from Brazilian and Ugandan cohorts, consisting of 5 point‐based variables with respective weights, was applied: mitral valveanterior leaflet thickening (weight=3), excessive leaflet
tip motion (3), regurgitation jet length ≥2 cm (6), aortic valve
focal thickening (4), and any regurgitation (5). …”
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Aetiology and use of antibiotics in pregnancy-related infections: results of the WHO Global Maternal Sepsis Study (GLOSS), 1-week inception cohort by Carolina C. Ribeiro-do-Valle, Mercedes Bonet, Vanessa Brizuela, Edgardo Abalos, Adama Baguiya, Fernando Bellissimo-Rodrigues, Mihaela Budianu, Lucian Puscasiu, Marian Knight, David Lissauer, Catherine Dunlop, Shevin T. Jacob, Sadia Shakoor, Luis Gadama, Bouchra Assarag, João Paulo Souza, Jose G. Cecatti, the WHO GLOSS research group

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Integration of HIV care into maternal and child health services in the global IeDEA consortium by John Humphrey, Elizabeth Nagel, James G. Carlucci, Andrew Edmonds, Aarti Kinikar, Kim Anderson, Valériane Leroy, Daisy Machado, Dwight E. Yin, Marco Tulio Luque, Madeleine Amorissani-Folquet, Safari Mbewe, Tulathip Suwanlerk, Athanase Munyaneza, Rena C. Patel, Beverly Musick, Lisa Abuogi, Kara Wools-Kaloustian

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Evaluating pediatric tuberculosis dosing guidelines: A model-based individual data pooled analysis. by Lufina Tsirizani Galileya, Roeland E Wasmann, Chishala Chabala, Helena Rabie, Janice Lee, Irene Njahira Mukui, Anneke Hesseling, Heather Zar, Rob Aarnoutse, Anna Turkova, Diana Gibb, Mark F Cotton, Helen McIlleron, Paolo Denti

“…Data from 387 children from South Africa, Zambia, Malawi, and India were available for analysis; 47% were female and 39% living with HIV (95% on ART). …”
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The epidemiology of HIV population viral load in twelve sub-Saharan African countries by Wolfgang Hladik, Paul Stupp, Stephen D. McCracken, Jessica Justman, Clement Ndongmo, Judith Shang, Emily K. Dokubo, Elizabeth Gummerson, Isabelle Koui, Stephane Bodika, Roger Lobognon, Hermann Brou, Caroline Ryan, Kristin Brown, Harriet Nuwagaba-Biribonwoha, Leonard Kingwara, Peter Young, Megan Bronson, Duncan Chege, Optatus Malewo, Yohannes Mengistu, Frederix Koen, Andreas Jahn, Andrew Auld, Sasi Jonnalagadda, Elizabeth Radin, Ndapewa Hamunime, Daniel B. Williams, Eugenie Kayirangwa, Veronicah Mugisha, Rennatus Mdodo, Stephen Delgado, Wilford Kirungi, Lisa Nelson, Christine West, Samuel Biraro, Kumbutso Dzekedzeke, Danielle Barradas, Owen Mugurungi, Shirish Balachandra, Peter H. Kilmarx, Godfrey Musuka, Hetal Patel, Bharat Parekh, Katrina Sleeman, Robert A. Domaoal, George Rutherford, Tsietso Motsoane, Anne-Cécile Zoung-Kanyi Bissek, Mansoor Farahani, Andrew C. Voetsch

“…<h4>Methods</h4> We analyzed data from Population-based HIV Impact Assessments (PHIAs), large national household-based surveys conducted between 2015 and 2019 in Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Eswatini, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. …”
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Integrative metabolomics highlights gut microbiota metabolites as novel NAFLD-related candidate biomarkers in children by Jiayou Luo, Miyang Luo, Atipatsa C. Kaminga, Jia Wei, Wen Dai, Yunlong Peng, Kunyan Zhao, Yamei Duan, Xiang Xiao, SiSi Ouyang, Zhenzhen Yao, Yixu Liu, Xiongfeng Pan

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Associations between vision impairment and driving performance and the effectiveness of vision-related interventions: A systematic review by Helen Nguyen, Gian Luca Di Tanna, Kristy Coxon, Julie Brown, Kerrie Ren, Jacqueline Ramke, Matthew J. Burton, Iris Gordon, Justine H. Zhang, João M. Furtado, Shaffi Mdala, Gatera Fiston Kitema, Lisa Keay

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Mitogenomic exploration supports the historical hypothesis of anthropogenic diffusion of a zoonotic parasite Echinococcus multilocularis by Naoki Hayashi, Ryo Nakao, Yuma Ohari, Takao Irie, Hirokazu Kouguchi, Elisha Chatanga, Wessam Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed, Mohamed Abdallah Mohamed Moustafa, Gohta Kinoshita, Munehiro Okamoto, Kinpei Yagi, Nariaki Nonaka

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Developing, implementing, and monitoring tailored strategies for integrated knowledge translation in five sub-Saharan African countries by Kerstin Sell, Nasreen S. Jessani, Firaol Mesfin, Eva A. Rehfuess, Anke Rohwer, Peter Delobelle, Bonny E. Balugaba, Bey-Marrié Schmidt, Kiya Kedir, Talitha Mpando, Jean Berchmans Niyibizi, Jimmy Osuret, Esther Bayiga-Zziwa, Tamara Kredo, Nyanyiwe Masingi Mbeye, Lisa M. Pfadenhauer

“…The Collaboration for Evidence-based Healthcare and Public Health in Africa (CEBHA +), comprising research institutions in Ethiopia, Malawi, Rwanda, South Africa, Uganda and Germany, developed and implemented tailored IKT strategies as part of its multifaceted research on prevention and care of non-communicable diseases and road traffic injuries. …”
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Have Hand Hygiene Practices in Two Tertiary Care Hospitals, Freetown, Sierra Leone, Improved in 2023 following Operational Research in 2021? by Matilda Mattu Moiwo, Gladys Nanilla Kamara, Dauda Kamara, Ibrahim Franklyn Kamara, Stephen Sevalie, Zikan Koroma, Kadijatu Nabie Kamara, Matilda N. Kamara, Rugiatu Z. Kamara, Satta Sylvia Theresa Kumba Kpagoi, Samuel Alie Konteh, Senesie Margao, Bobson Derrick Fofanah, Fawzi Thomas, Joseph Sam Kanu, Hannock M. Tweya, Hemant Deepak Shewade, Anthony David Harries

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