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Research

• Breast feeding initiation rate across Western countries: does religion matter? An ecological study (6 December, 2016)

  Jonathan Y Bernard, Emmanuel Cohen, Michael S Kramer
• Determinants of morbidity and mortality following emergency abdominal surgery in children in low-income and middle-income countries (12 December, 2016)

  GlobalSurg Collaborative
• Improving Ebola infection prevention and control in primary healthcare facilities in Sierra Leone: a single-group pretest post-test, mixed-methods study (2 December, 2016)

  Ruwan Ratnayake, Lara S Ho, Rashid Ansumana, Hannah Brown, Matthias Borchert, Laura Miller, Thomas Kratz, Shannon A McMahon, Foday Sahr
• Economic valuation of the impact of a large surgical charity using the value of lost welfare approach (8 December, 2016)

  Daniel Scott Corlew, Blake C Alkire, Dan Poenaru, John G Meara, Mark G Shrime
• The How Project: understanding contextual challenges to global surgical care provision in low-resource settings (16 December, 2016)

  Nakul P Raykar, Rachel R Yorlets, Charles Liu, Roberta Goldman, Sarah L M Greenberg, Meera Kotagal, Paul E Farmer, John G Meara, Nobhojit Roy, Rowan D Gillies
• Providers' knowledge of diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis using vignettes: evidence from rural Bihar, India (16 December, 2016)

  Manoj Mohanan, Jeremy D Goldhaber-Fiebert, Soledad Giardili, Marcos Vera-Hernández
• How did rapid scale-up of HIV services impact on workplace and interpersonal trust in Zambian primary health centres: a case-based health systems analysis (16 December, 2016)

  Stephanie M Topp, Julien M Chipukuma
• Determinants of adherence to antiretroviral therapy among HIV-positive adults in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review (30 December, 2016)

  Tessa Heestermans, Joyce L Browne, Susan C Aitken, Sigrid C Vervoort, Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch
• Efficacy of three feeding regimens for home-based management of children with uncomplicated severe acute malnutrition: a randomised trial in India (30 December, 2016)

  Nita Bhandari, Sanjana Brahmawar Mohan, Anuradha Bose, Sharad D Iyengar, Sunita Taneja, Sarmila Mazumder, Ruby Angeline Pricilla, Kirti Iyengar, Harshpal Singh Sachdev, Venkata Raghava Mohan, Virendra Suhalka, Sachiyo Yoshida, Jose Martines, Rajiv Bahl,