C reactive protein (CRP), a marker for the presence of an inflammatory process, is the most extensively studied marker for distinguishing bacterial from non-bacterial infections in febrile patients. A ...

Health workforce development in Rwanda. The Government of Rwanda significantly invests into building its health workforce in alignment with the national ‘four by four’ strategy, aiming to quadruple ...

Introduction Rotation work, characterised by travelling long distances to work in isolated areas where workers typically rotate consecutive days working and living on-site with periods at home, is ...

Dengue vaccine and enhanced dengue disease. Dengue poses a significant public health problem in the tropics and subtropics with as many as 390 million infections annually.1 After decades of research, ...

This paper explores the pipeline of new and upcoming vaccines as it relates to monitoring their safety. Compared with most currently available vaccines, that are constituted of live attenuated ...

The global health workforce crisis poses a significant challenge to achieving universal health coverage (UHC), particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Task-shifting, the delegation ...

Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. The enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is one of the ...

Introduction The initial International Conference on Population and Development in 1994 contains the first reference to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights (SRHR). It has been ...

How should the WHO most efficiently keep its global recommendations up to date? In this article we describe how WHO developed and applied a ‘living guidelines’ approach to its maternal and perinatal ...

Background Children represent nearly 40% of forcibly displaced populations and are subject to stressors that affect well-being. Little is known about the effects of interventions to enhance ...

Introduction Cardiovascular disease (CVD) continues to pose a significant burden among the elderly population in China. There is a knowledge gap in the temporal trends, regional variations and ...

Introduction Effective strategies to increase pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) uptake and continuation among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) who engage in sex work or transactional sex are ...