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Research

• Is the sustainable development goal target for financial risk protection in health realistic? (28 September, 2017)

  Stéphane Verguet, Addis Tamire Woldemariam, Warren N Durrett, Ole F Norheim, Margaret E Kruk
• Introducing visual participatory methods to develop local knowledge on HIV in rural South Africa (28 September, 2017)

  Chloe Brooks, Lucia D’Ambruoso, Karolina Kazimierczak, Sizzy Ngobeni, Rhian Twine, Stephen Tollman, Kathleen Kahn, Peter Byass
• A systematic review of cost-effectiveness, comparing traction to intramedullary nailing of femoral shaft fractures, in the less economically developed context (25 September, 2017)

  Rebekah J Parkes, Gary Parkes, Kyle James
• Affordability of comprehensive community health worker programmes in rural sub-Saharan Africa (25 September, 2017)

  Celia Taylor, Frances Griffiths, Richard Lilford
• Sex practices and awareness of Ebola virus disease among male survivors and their partners in Guinea (25 September, 2017)

  Mandy Kader Kondé, Moustapha Keita Diop, Marie Yvonne, Curtis, Abdoulaye Barry, Saidou Kouyaté, Ludovica Ghilardi, Sékou Kouyaté, Aissatou Malal Diallo, N’faly Magassouba, Isadora Quick, Mory Keïta, Miles W Carroll, Josep Jansa, Lorenzo Subissi
• Effects of nutrition interventions during pregnancy on low birth weight: an overview of systematic reviews (22 September, 2017)

  Katharina da Silva Lopes, Erika Ota, Prakash Shakya, Amarjargal Dagvadorj, Olukunmi Omobolanle Balogun, Juan Pablo Peña-Rosas, Luz Maria De-Regil, Rintaro Mori
• Disentangling age–gender interactions associated with risks of fatal and non-fatal road traffic injuries in the Sultanate of Oman (22 September, 2017)

  Amira K Al-Aamri, Sabu S Padmadas, Li-Chun Zhang, Abdullah A Al-Maniri
• Do chain pharmacies perform better than independent pharmacies? Evidence from a standardised patient study of the management of childhood diarrhoea and suspected tuberculosis in urban India (22 September, 2017)

  Rosalind Miller, Catherine Goodman
• Effect of low-dose versus higher-dose antenatal iron supplementation on child health outcomes at 36 months of age in Viet Nam: longitudinal follow-up of a cluster randomised controlled trial (22 September, 2017)

  Sarah Hanieh, Tran T Ha, Julie A Simpson, Sabine Braat, Tran T Thuy, Thach D Tran, Janet King, Tran Tuan, Jane Fisher, Beverley-Ann Biggs
• Biopsychosocial factors associated with chronic low back pain disability in rural Nigeria: a population-based cross-sectional study (15 September, 2017)

  Chinonso Nwamaka Igwesi-Chidobe, Bolaji Coker, Chika N Onwasigwe, Isaac O Sorinola, Emma L Godfrey
• How income and food prices influence global dietary intakes by age and sex: evidence from 164 countries (15 September, 2017)

  Andrew Muhammad, Anna D’Souza, Birgit Meade, Renata Micha, Dariush Mozaffarian
• Reproductive, maternal, neonatal and child health in conflict: a case study on Syria using Countdown indicators (14 September, 2017)

  Jocelyn DeJong, Hala Ghattas, Hyam Bashour, Rima Mourtada, Chaza Akik, Amelia Reese-Masterson
• Modelling historical changes in the force-of-infection of Chagas disease to inform control and elimination programmes: application in Colombia (7 September, 2017)

  Zulma M Cucunubá, Pierre Nouvellet, Lesong Conteh, Mauricio Javier Vera, Victor Manuel Angulo, Juan Carlos Dib, Gabriel Jaime Parra -Henao, María Gloria Basáñez
• The effect of paid maternity leave on early childhood growth in low-income and middle-income countries (7 September, 2017)

  Deepa Jahagirdar, Sam Harper, Jody Heymann, Hema Swaminathan, Arnab Mukherji, Arijit Nandi
• Effective coverage of primary care services in eight high-mortality countries (4 September, 2017)

  Hannah H Leslie, Address Malata, Youssoupha Ndiaye, Margaret E Kruk
• Acute necrotising gingivitis in young children from villages with and without noma in Niger and its association with sociodemographic factors, nutritional status and oral hygiene practices: results of a population-based survey (30 August, 2017)

  Denise Baratti-Mayer, Angèle Gayet-Ageron, Norbert Cionca, Mahamadou Abdoulaye Mossi, Didier Pittet, Andrea Mombelli
• Understanding the challenges to caring for low birthweight babies in rural southern Malawi: a qualitative study exploring caregiver and health worker perceptions and experiences (22 August, 2017)

  Marianne Koenraads, John Phuka, Kenneth Maleta, Sally Theobald, Melissa Gladstone
• Cost-effectiveness of diagnostic-therapeutic strategies for paediatric visceral leishmaniasis in Morocco (19 August, 2017)

  Sergi Alonso, Nabil Tachfouti, Adil Najdi, Elisa Sicuri, Albert Picado
• Association of tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship (TAPS) exposure and cigarette use among Nigerian adolescents: implications for current practices, products and policies (10 August, 2017)

  Onyema G Chido-Amajuoyi, Dale S Mantey, Stephanie L Clendennen, Adriana Pérez
• Does foreign aid crowd out government investments? Evidence from rural health centres in Rwanda (10 August, 2017)

  Chunling Lu, Benjamin Cook, Chris Desmond
• Zika pandemic online trends, incidence and health risk communication: a time trend study (15 August, 2017)

  Gbenga Adebayo, Yehuda Neumark, Anat Gesser-Edelsburg, Wiessam Abu Ahmad, Hagai Levine
• Assessing the global reach and value of a provider-facing healthcare app using large-scale analytics (6 August, 2017)

  Vikas O'Reilly-Shah, George Easton, Scott Gillespie
• Prenatal and perinatal risk factors for disability in a rural Nepali birth cohort (6 August, 2017)

  Edward J N Haworth, Kirti M Tumbahangphe, Anthony Costello, Dharma Manandhar, Dhruba Adhikari, Bharat Budhathoki, Dej Krishna Shrestha, Khadka Sagar, Michelle Heys
• Predictors of attrition from care at 2 years in a prospective cohort of HIV-infected adults in Tigray, Ethiopia (6 August, 2017)

  Raffaella Bucciardini, Vincenzo Fragola, Teshome Abegaz, Stefano Lucattini, Atakilt Halifom, Eskedar Tadesse, Micheal Berhe, Katherina Pugliese, Luca Fucili, Massimiliano Di Gregorio, Marco Mirra, Paola De Castro, Roberta Terlizzi, Paola Tatarelli, Andrea Binelli, Teame Zegeye, Michela Campagnoli, Stefano Vella, Loko Abraham, Hagos Godefay
• Quantifying unmet need for hypertension care in South Africa through a care cascade: evidence from the SANHANES, 2011-2012 (16 August, 2017)

  Kaitlyn M Berry, Whadi-ah Parker, Zandile J Mchiza, Ronel Sewpaul, Demetre Labadarios, Sydney Rosen, Andrew Stokes
• Systematic review of the clinical manifestations of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency in the Greater Mekong Subregion: implications for malaria elimination and beyond (19 August, 2017)

  Ken Ing Cherng Ong, Hodaka Kosugi, Sophea Thoeun, Hitomi Araki, Moe Moe Thandar, Moritoshi Iwagami, Bouasy Hongvanthong, Paul T Brey, Shigeyuki Kano, Masamine Jimba