Maternal and newborn infections are a major contributor to mortality morbidity globally. Lost-cost, effective safe interventions needed address these. Based on promising findings, azithromycin has been identified as potentially antibiotic reduce maternal in low- middle-income countries (LMICs). However, robust randomized clinical trials range of settings confirm these findings well under...

a recent editorial by naoki ikegami has proposed three key lessons from japan’s experience of achieving virtually universal coverage with primary healthcare services: the need to integrate the existing providers of primary healthcare services into the organised health system; the need to limit government commitments to finance hospital services and the need to empower providers of primary healt...

BACKGROUND Despite investment in family planning programs and education, unmet need for family planning remains high among young women (aged 15-24) in low and middle-income countries, increasing the risk for unwanted pregnancies and adverse social and reproductive health outcomes. There is a dearth of cross-national research that identifies the differential impact of community level factors amo...

There is a perception among oncologists that the field of global oncology pertains only to matters related low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). It stems from considers lack access cancer care unaffordability therapy as problems plague less affluent regions world. In this commentary, we aim shed light on fact these issues do not respect dichotomies high-income versus low-income or north sou...

BACKGROUND Education and wealth may have different associations with female obesity but this has not been investigated in detail outside high-income countries. This study examines the separate and inter-related associations of education and household wealth in relation to obesity in women in a representative sample of low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). METHODS The seven largest nationa...

INTRODUCTION Unintentional injuries (injuries for which there is no evidence of a predetermined intent) are one of the leading causes of death worldwide, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Although evidence demonstrates unintentional injuries are preventable it is a public health challenge for many LMICs such as the Solomon Islands. Occupational therapists are well placed...

Implementation of effective interventions has halved maternal and child mortality over the past 2 decades, but less progress has been made in reducing neonatal mortality. Almost 45% of under-5 global mortality now occurs in infants <1 month of age, with approximately 86% of neonatal deaths occurring in low- and lower-middle-income countries (LMICs). As an estimated 23% of neonatal deaths global...

BACKGROUND Persons who inject drugs (PWID) are at an elevated risk for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. In many high-income countries, needle and syringe exchange programs (NSP) have been associated with reductions in blood-borne infections. However, we do not have a good understanding of the effectiveness of NSP in low/middle-income and transitional-eco...

BACKGROUND To summarize global research trends and activities on multimorbidity; then to assess the knowledge gaps and to identify implications for knowledge exchange between high income countries (HICs) and low- and middle- income countries (LMICs). METHODS A comprehensive search was conducted to identify research publications on multimorbidity in the Web of ScienceTM, as well as diabetes, d...

This volume has shown that universal provision of a package of essential surgical services would avert an estimated 1.5 million deaths per year, or 6–7 percent of all avertable deaths in LMICs (Debas and others 2006; Mock and others 2015). Although approximately 234 million surgeries are performed worldwide each year, the distribution is very inequitable (Funk and others 2010). Nearly two billi...