INTRODUCTION Integration of services to screen and manage mental health and substance use disorders (MSDs) into HIV care settings has been identified as a promising strategy to improve mental health and HIV treatment outcomes among people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Data on the extent to which HIV treatment sites in LMICs screen and manage MSDs are ...

BACKGROUND Acute kidney injury (AKI) is frequent and is associated with poor outcomes, including increased mortality, higher risk of chronic kidney disease, and prolonged hospital lengths of stay. The epidemiology of AKI mainly derives from studies performed in Western high-income countries. More limited data are available from Western low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) located in C...

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major threat to human health globally. Surveillance key activity determine AMR burden, impacts, and trends monitor effects of interventions. systems require efficient capture onward sharing high-quality laboratory data. Substantial investment being made improve capacity, particularly in low-income middle-income countries (LMICs) with high disease burdens. How...

Energy research seeking to influence policy in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) is often funded by – conceptualised authors institutions from higher income (HICs). Research agendas recommendations determined HICs potentially yield the most on policymaking LMICs. This risks leaving a multidimensional gap how LMICs frame, evidence enact policies. paper first provide quantitative geographi...

p c f f [ p 2 c In recent years, the amount of information available on the ealth status of children and—to a lesser extent—adolescents iving in lowand middle-income countries (LMICs) has been assively expanded. Population-based surveys, repeated evry 5 years or so, are now available for 100 LMICs, providing information on nutritional status, health-related behaviors, morbidity, and mortality [...

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...

Summary Mental disorders (including substance use disorders, dementia, and self-harm) account for a substantial burden of disease economic costs in low-income middle-income countries (LMICs), yet they attract little funding. External resources are urgently needed but evidence on investments is scarce. This Health Policy paper uses 35 elite interviews documentary analyses to examine how...

Compelling evidence demonstrates links between greenspaces and human well-being. However, the existing has a strong bias towards high-income countries. Rapidly urbanising cities in low- middle-income countries (LMICs) remain largely unexplored. The rising prevalence of mental disorders LMICs highlights need to better understand role can play mitigating ill-health. We carried out cross-sectional...

INTRODUCTION HIV and cervical cancer are intersecting epidemics that disproportionately affect one of the most vulnerable populations in the world: women in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Historically, the disparity in cervical cancer risk for women in LMICs has been due to the lack of organized screening and prevention programmes. In recent years, this risk has been augmented by the...

For most of the industrialized world, the morbidity and mortality attributed to cardiovascular disease have declined in recent decades as a result of improvements in technology and a greater emphasis on primary and secondary preventative strategies.1 Unfortunately, this dramatic improvement in disease burden has not been witnessed in lowand middle-income countries (LMICs), defined by the World ...