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Research

• Traditional, complementary and alternative medicine use in Sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review (31 October, 2018)

  Peter Bai James, Jon Wardle, Amie Steel, Jon Adams
• Disability status, intimate partner violence and perceived social support among married women in three districts of the Terai region of Nepal (31 October, 2018)

  Jhumka Gupta, Lauren F Cardoso, Gemma Ferguson, Binita Shrestha, Prabin Nanicha Shrestha, Courtney Harris, Nora Groce, Cari Jo Clark
• ‘They care rudely!’: resourcing and relational health system factors that influence retention in care for people living with HIV in Zambia (25 October, 2018)

  Chanda Mwamba, Anjali Sharma, Njekwa Mukamba, Laura Beres, Elvin Geng, Charles B Holmes, Izukanji Sikazwe, Stephanie M Topp
• Strategic purchasing for universal health coverage: examining the purchaser–provider relationship within a social health insurance scheme in Nigeria (25 October, 2018)

  Enyi Etiaba, Obinna Onwujekwe, Ayako Honda, Ogochukwu Ibe, Benjamin Uzochukwu, Kara Hanson
• Trends and drivers of change in the prevalence of anaemia among 1 million women and children in India, 2006 to 2016 (19 October, 2018)

  Phuong Hong Nguyen, Samuel Scott, Rasmi Avula, Lan Mai Tran, Purnima Menon
• Emerging implications of policies on malaria treatment: genetic changes in the Pfmdr-1 gene affecting susceptibility to artemether–lumefantrine and artesunate–amodiaquine in Africa

  (19 October, 2018)

  Lucy C Okell, Lisa Malene Reiter, Lene Sandø Ebbe, Vito Baraka, Donal Bisanzio, Oliver J Watson, Adam Bennett, Robert Verity, Peter Gething, Cally Roper, Michael Alifrangis
• Building caregivers’ emotional, parental and social support skills to prevent violence against adolescent girls: findings from a cluster randomised controlled trial in Democratic Republic of Congo (19 October, 2018)

  Lindsay Stark, Ilana Seff, Khudejha Asghar, Danielle Roth, Theresita Bakamore, Mairi MacRae, Cecile Fanton D’Andon, Kathryn L Falb
• Preventing violence against refugee adolescent girls: findings from a cluster randomised controlled trial in Ethiopia (19 October, 2018)

  Lindsay Stark, Khudejha Asghar, Ilana Seff, Gary Yu, Teame Tesfay Gessesse, Leora Ward, Asham Assazenew Baysa, Amy Neiman, Kathryn L Falb
• Do current guidelines for waist circumference apply to black Africans? Prediction of insulin resistance by waist circumference among Africans living in America (15 October, 2018)

  J Damascene Kabakambira, Rafeal L Baker Jr, Sara M Briker, Amber B Courville, Lilian S Mabundo, Christopher W DuBose, Stephanie T Chung, Robert H Eckel, Anne E Sumner
• Free contraception and behavioural nudges in the postpartum period: evidence from a randomised control trial in Nairobi, Kenya (15 October, 2018)

  Margaret McConnell, Claire Watt Rothschild, Allison Ettenger, Faith Muigai, Jessica Cohen
• Creation of the WHO Indicators of Infant and Young Child Development (IYCD): metadata synthesis across 10 countries (15 October, 2018)

  Gillian A Lancaster, Gareth McCray, Patricia Kariger, Tarun Dua, Andrew Titman, Jaya Chandna, Dana McCoy, Amina Abubakar, Jena Derakhshani Hamadani, Günther Fink, Fahmida Tofail, Melissa Gladstone, Magdalena Janus
• Girls’ hidden penalty: analysis of gender inequality in child mortality with data from 195 countries (30 October, 2018)

  Neelam Iqbal, Anna Gkiouleka, Adrienne Milner, Doreen Montag, Valentina Gallo
• Does extending the duration of legislated paid maternity leave improve breastfeeding practices? Evidence from 38 low-income and middle-income countries (11 October, 2018)

  Yan Chai, Arijit Nandi, Jody Heymann
• Secular trends in the prevalence of female genital mutilation/cutting among girls: a systematic analysis (6 November, 2018)

  Ngianga-Bakwin Kandala, Martinsixtus C Ezejimofor, Olalekan A Uthman, Paul Komba
• Improving quality of care during childbirth in primary health centres: a stepped-wedge cluster-randomised trial in India (8 October, 2018)

  Ramesh Agarwal, Deepak Chawla, Minakshi Sharma, Shyama Nagaranjan, Suresh K Dalpath, Rakesh Gupta, Saket Kumar, Saumyadripta Chaudhuri, Premananda Mohanty, Mari Jeeva Sankar, Krishna Agarwal, Shikha Rani, Anu Thukral, Suksham Jain, Chandra Prakash Yadav, Geeta Gathwala, Praveen Kumar, Jyoti Sarin, Vishnubhatla Sreenivas, Kailash C Aggarwal, Yogesh Kumar, Pradip Kharya, Surender Singh Bisht, Gopal Shridhar, Raksha Arora, Kapil Joshi, Kapil Bhalla, Aarti Soni, Sube Singh, Prischillal Devakirubai, Ritu Samuel, Reena Yadav, Rajiv Bahl, Vijay Kumar, Vinod Kumar Paul
• Pushing the envelope through the Global Financing Facility: potential impact of mobilising additional support to scale-up life-saving interventions for women, children and adolescents in 50 high-burden countries (2 October, 2018)

  Victoria B Chou, Oliver Bubb-Humfryes, Rachel Sanders, Neff Walker, John Stover, Tom Cochrane, Angela Stegmuller, Sophia Magalona, Christian Von Drehle, Damian G Walker, Maria Eugenia Bonilla-Chacin, Kimberly Rachel Boer
• Health system governance following devolution: comparing experiences of decentralisation in Kenya and Indonesia (28 September, 2018)

  Rosalind McCollum, Ralalicia Limato, Lilian Otiso, Sally Theobald, Miriam Taegtmeyer
• Production costs and potential prices for biosimilars of human insulin and insulin analogues (25 September, 2018)

  Dzintars Gotham, Melissa J Barber, Andrew Hill
• Effects of refresher training on the use of manual vacuum aspiration in the treatment of incomplete abortions: a quasi-experimental study in Malawi (23 September, 2018)

  Maria Lisa Odland, Gladys Membe-Gadama, Ursula Kafulafula, Geir Wenberg Jacobsen, Jon Øyvind Odland, Elisabeth Darj
• Increasing participation in a vector control campaign: a cluster randomised controlled evaluation of behavioural economic interventions in Peru (21 September, 2018)

  Alison M Buttenheim, Valerie A Paz-Soldán, Ricardo Castillo-Neyra, Amparo M Toledo Vizcarra, Katty Borrini-Mayori, Molly McGuire, Claudia Arevalo-Nieto, Kevin G Volpp, Dylan S Small, Jere R Behrman, Cesar Naquira-Verlarde, Michael Z Levy
• Why patients prefer high-level healthcare facilities: a qualitative study using focus groups in rural and urban China (19 September, 2018)

  Yun Liu, Liwei Zhong, Shasha Yuan, Joris van de Klundert
• Integration of HIV and reproductive health services in public sector facilities: analysis of client flow data over time in Kenya (14 September, 2018)

  Isolde J Birdthistle, Justin Fenty, Martine Collumbien, Charlotte Warren, James Kimani, Charity Ndwiga, Susannah Mayhew
• Evidence of a distinct group of Black African patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (16 September, 2018)

  Elopy N Sibanda, Margo Chase-Topping, Lorraine T Pfavayi, Mark E J Woolhouse, Francisca Mutapi
• Institutionalising an evidence-informed approach to guideline development: progress and challenges at the World Health Organization (8 September, 2018)

  Unni Gopinathan, Steven J Hoffman