Vaccines are now available to combat rotavirus, the most common cause of severe diarrhea among children worldwide. We review clinical trial data for available rotavirus vaccines and summarize postlicensure data on effectiveness, impact, and safety from countries routinely using these vaccines in national programs. In these countries, rotavirus vaccines have reduced all-cause diarrhea and rotavi...

Abstract Cognitive aging is a highly complex, dynamic, and context-dependent process; influenced by individual community characteristics experiences across the life course. Low- middle-income countries (LMICs) are critical components of international dementia research because burden rapidly rising in LMICs, low-resource settings may have unique social economic determinants cognitive health. How...

BACKGROUND The cost of dialysis in low and middle-Income countries has not been systematically reviewed. The objective of this article is to systematically review peer-reviewed articles on the cost of dialysis across low and middle-income countries. METHODS PubMed and Embase databases were searched for the year 1998 to March 2013, and additional studies were added from Google Scholar search. ...

The “middle-income trap” is the phenomenon of hitherto rapidly growing economies stagnating at middle-income levels and failing to graduate into the ranks of high-income countries. In this study we examine the middle-income trap as a special case of growth slowdowns, which are identified as large sudden and sustained deviations from the growth path predicted by a basic conditional convergence f...