Ensuring equitable access to life-saving medicines (LSMs) is crucial for achieving health equity. LSMs can prevent deaths ...

Background Malaria remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in Nigeria. Artemisinin-based combination therapies ...

The progressive realisation of universal health coverage requires that health services are not only available and accessible, but also that they are rendered to the population in an acceptable, ...

Background The complexity of delivering trauma care makes the assessment of its provision challenging. The identification of bellwether procedures has previously been successful in the evaluation of ...

Background Authorship and author order have been used as one measure to characterise equity in research partnerships. First and last (senior) authorships often denote scientific merit as well as ...

Introduction The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) has been the World Health Organization’s (WHO) second biggest source of funding in recent years, contributing 9.5% of WHO’s revenues between ...

The adequate provision of medical oxygen is going to make the difference between life and death for the majority of patients with COVID-19 in Africa. Sub-Saharan African countries lack affordable and ...

Background The US military first deployed depleted uranium (DU) weapons in Iraq during the Gulf War in 1990 and in the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Research into the health impacts of DU has been mired in ...

Introduction Incentive-linked prescribing, which is when healthcare providers accept incentives from pharmaceutical companies for prescribing promoted medicines, is a form of bribery that harms ...

Globally, PM 2.5 was associated with 3 284 358 incident cases of CKD each year. The burden of CKD attributable to PM 2.5 was disproportionately borne by low income and lower middle income countries ...

In Nigeria, 70% of Nigerians rely on primary health care (PHC) centres, accounting for a total of 85.3% of hospitals and clinics in the country. However, despite the need for the PHC centres to cater ...

Background Neonatal sepsis is a leading cause of child mortality, and this burden is rising secondary to increasing antimicrobial resistance worldwide. There are marked global disparities in the ...