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Research

• Does supportive legislation guarantee access to pregnancy termination and postabortion care services? Findings from a facility census in Central Province, Zambia (3 September, 2018)

  Jenny A Cresswell, Onikepe O Owolabi, Nachela Chelwa, Mardieh L Dennis, Sabine Gabrysch, Bellington Vwalika, Mike Mbizvo, Veronique Filippi, Oona M R Campbell
• Clubfoot treatment in 2015: a global perspective (3 September, 2018)

  Rosalind M Owen, Beth Capper, Christopher Lavy
• Determining environmental and anthropogenic factors which explain the global distribution of Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus

  (3 September, 2018)

  Borame Lee Dickens, Haoyang Sun, Mark Jit, Alex R Cook, Luis Roman Carrasco
• The coverage of continuum of care in maternal, newborn and child health: a cross-sectional study of woman-child pairs in Ghana (3 September, 2018)

  Akira Shibanuma, Francis Yeji, Sumiyo Okawa, Emmanuel Mahama, Kimiyo Kikuchi, Clement Narh, Yeetey Enuameh, Keiko Nanishi, Abraham Oduro, Seth Owusu-Agyei, Margaret Gyapong, Gloria Quansah Asare, Junko Yasuoka, Evelyn Korkor Ansah, Abraham Hodgson, Masamine Jimba
• Field detection devices for screening the quality of medicines: a systematic review (29 August, 2018)

  Serena Vickers, Matthew Bernier, Stephen Zambrzycki, Facundo M Fernandez, Paul N Newton, Céline Caillet
• Geospatial mapping of access to timely essential surgery in sub-Saharan Africa (16 August, 2018)

  Sabrina Juran, P. Niclas Broer, Stefanie J. Klug, Rachel C. Snow, Emelda A. Okiro, Paul O. Ouma, Robert W. Snow, Andrew J. Tatem, John G. Meara, Victor A. Alegana
• Prevalence, incidence and predictors of volunteer community health worker attrition in Kwale County, Kenya (31 July, 2018)

  Anthony K Ngugi, Lucy W Nyaga, Amyn Lakhani, Felix Agoi, Margrette Hanselman, George Lugogo, Kala M Mehta
• Lifetime prevalence, correlates and health consequences of gender-based violence victimisation and perpetration among men and women in Somalia (25 July, 2018)

  Andrea L Wirtz, Nancy A Perrin, Amelie Desgroppes, Verena Phipps, Ali A Abdi, Brendan Ross, Francesco Kaburu, Isatu Kajue, Ezekiel Kutto, Eri Taniguchi, Nancy Glass
• Diabetes knowledge and care practices among adults in rural Bangladesh: a cross-sectional survey (23 July, 2018)

  Edward Fottrell, Naveed Ahmed, Sanjit Kumar Shaha, Hannah Jennings, Abdul Kuddus, Joanna Morrison, Kohenour Akter, Badrun Nahar, Tasmin Nahar, Hassan Haghparast-Bidgoli, A K Azad Khan, Anthony Costello, Kishwar Azad
• Early childhood cognitive development is affected by interactions among illness, diet, enteropathogens and the home environment: findings from the MAL-ED birth cohort study (23 July, 2018)
• International research and guidelines on post-tuberculosis chronic lung disorders: a systematic scoping review (23 July, 2018)

  Sanne C van Kampen, Amanda Wanner, Miles Edwards, Anthony D Harries, Bruce J Kirenga, Jeremiah Chakaya, Rupert Jones
• Is sex ratio at birth an appropriate measure of prenatal sex selection? Findings of a theoretical model and its application to India (19 July, 2018)

  Sylvie Dubuc, Devinderjit Singh Sivia
• Epidemiology and outcomes of Clostridium difficile infection among hospitalised patients: results of a multicentre retrospective study in South Africa

  (15 July, 2018)

  Laurel Legenza, Susanne Barnett, Warren Rose, Monica Bianchini, Nasia Safdar, Renier Coetzee
• Modelling the effect of a mass radio campaign on child mortality using facility utilisation data and the Lives Saved Tool (LiST): findings from a cluster randomised trial in Burkina Faso (16 July, 2018)

  Joanna Murray, Roy Head, Sophie Sarrassat, Jennifer Hollowell, Pieter Remes, Matthew Lavoie, Josephine Borghi, Frida Kasteng, Nicolas Meda, Hermann Badolo, Moctar Ouedraogo, Robert Bambara, Simon Cousens
• Cost-effectiveness and economies of scale of a mass radio campaign to promote household life-saving practices in Burkina Faso (16 July, 2018)

  Frida Kasteng, Joanna Murray, Simon Cousens, Sophie Sarrassat, Jennifer Steel, Nicolas Meda, Moctar Ouedraogo, Roy Head, Josephine Borghi
• Accountability mechanisms and the value of relationships: experiences of front-line managers at subnational level in Kenya and South Africa (6 July, 2018)

  Nonhlanhla Nxumalo, Lucy Gilson, Jane Goudge, Benjamin Tsofa, Susan Cleary, Edwine Barasa, Sassy Molyneux
• Risk factors and risk factor cascades for communicable disease outbreaks in complex humanitarian emergencies: a qualitative systematic review (6 July, 2018)

  Charlotte Christiane Hammer, Julii Brainard, Paul R Hunter
• Performance of verbal autopsy methods in estimating HIV-associated mortality among adults in South Africa (3 July, 2018)

  Aaron S Karat, Noriah Maraba, Mpho Tlali, Salome Charalambous, Violet N Chihota, Gavin J Churchyard, Katherine L Fielding, Yasmeen Hanifa, Suzanne Johnson, Kerrigan M McCarthy, Kathleen Kahn, Daniel Chandramohan, Alison D Grant