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Research

• Should oral contraceptive pills be available without a prescription? A systematic review of over-the-counter and pharmacy access availability (25 June, 2019)

  Caitlin E Kennedy, Ping Teresa Yeh, Lianne Gonsalves, Hussain Jafri, Mary Eluned Gaffield, James Kiarie, Manjulaa L Narasimhan
• Effect of results-based financing on facility-based maternal mortality at birth: an interrupted time-series analysis with independent controls in Malawi (22 June, 2019)

  Manuela De Allegri, Rachel P Chase, Julia Lohmann, Anja Schoeps, Adamson S Muula, Stephan Brenner
• Cost of integrated chronic care for severe non-communicable diseases at district hospitals in rural Rwanda (17 June, 2019)

  Lauren Anne Eberly, Christian Rusangwa, Loise Ng'ang'a, Claire C Neal, Jean Paul Mukundiyukuri, Egide Mpanusingo, Jean Claude Mungunga, Hamissy Habineza, Todd Anderson, Gedeon Ngoga, Symaque Dusabeyezu, Gene Kwan, Charlotte Bavuma, Emmanual Rusingiza, Francis Mutabazi, Joseph Mucumbitsi, Cyprien Gahamanyi, Cadet Mutumbira, Paul H Park, Tharcisse Mpunga, Gene Bukhman
• Effects of community health worker interventions on socioeconomic inequities in maternal and newborn health in low-income and middle-income countries: a mixed-methods systematic review (16 June, 2019)

  Andrea Katryn Blanchard, Audrey Prost, Tanja A J Houweling
• Insulin prices, availability and affordability in 13 low-income and middle-income countries (11 June, 2019)

  Margaret Ewen, Huibert-Jan Joosse, David Beran, Richard Laing
• ‘Water is life’: developing community participation for clean water in rural South Africa (11 June, 2019)

  Jennifer Hove, Lucia D'Ambruoso, Denny Mabetha, Maria van der Merwe, Peter Byass, Kathleen Kahn, Sonto Khosa, Sophie Witter, Rhian Twine
• ‘I have no love for such people, because they leave us to suffer’: a qualitative study of health workers’ responses and institutional adaptations to absenteeism in rural Uganda (6 June, 2019)

  Raymond Tweheyo, Catherine Reed, Stephen Campbell, Linda Davies, Gavin Daker-White
• Predictors of pregnancy among young people in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and narrative synthesis (5 June, 2019)

  Nathali Gunawardena, Arone Wondwossen Fantaye, Sanni Yaya
• Cost-effectiveness of scaling up of hepatitis C screening and treatment: a modelling study in South Korea (4 June, 2019)

  Jungyeon Kim, Markus Haacker, Salmaan Keshavjee, Rifat Atun
• Short-term and long-term distributional consequences of prenatal malnutrition and stress: using Ramadan as a natural experiment (4 June, 2019)

  Farhan Majid, Jere Behrman, Subha Mani
• Effect of power outages on the use of maternal health services: evidence from Maharashtra, India (4 June, 2019)

  Mustafa Koroglu, Bridget R Irwin, Karen A Grépin
• What do community health workers want? Findings of a discrete choice experiment among Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) in India (31 May, 2019)

  Marwa Abdel-All, Blake Angell, Stephen Jan, Martin Howell, Kirsten Howard, Seye Abimbola, Rohina Joshi
• Does voluntary medical male circumcision protect against sexually transmitted infections among men and women in real-world scale-up settings? Findings of a household survey in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (30 May, 2019)

  Stephanie Davis, Carlos Toledo, Lara Lewis, Brendan Maughan-Brown, Kassahun Ayalew, Ayesha B M Kharsany
• “He is suitable for her, of course he is our relative”: a qualitative exploration of the drivers and implications of child marriage in Gezira State, Sudan (28 May, 2019)

  Laura Dean, Angela Obasi, Asma El Sony, Selma Fadul, Hanaa El Hassan, Rachael Thomson, Rachel Tolhurst
• Self-reported tuberculosis in India: evidence from NFHS-4 (22 May, 2019)

  Sumit Mazumdar, Srinath Satyanarayana, Madhukar Pai
• Community, facility and individual level impact of integrating mental health screening and treatment into the primary healthcare system in Sehore district, Madhya Pradesh, India (19 May, 2019)

  Rahul Shidhaye, Emily Baron, Vaibhav Murhar, Sujit Rathod, Azaz Khan, Abhishek Singh, Sanjay Shrivastava, Shital Muke, Ritu Shrivastava, Crick Lund, Vikram Patel
• Effect of an integrated neonatal care kit on neonatal health outcomes: a cluster randomised controlled trial in rural Pakistan (16 May, 2019)

  Lisa G Pell, Ali Turab, Diego G Bassani, Joy Shi, Sajid Soofi, Masawar Hussain, Shabina Ariff, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Shaun K Morris
• Taking stock of cost-effectiveness analysis of healthcare in China (14 May, 2019)

  Thomas Butt, Gordon G Liu, David D Kim, Peter J Neumann
• Life expectancy and disparities in survival among HIV-infected people receiving antiretroviral therapy: an observational cohort study in Kathmandu, Nepal (14 May, 2019)

  Dharma N Bhatta, Ruchi Adhikari, Sushil Karki, Arun K Koirala, Sharada P Wasti
• Self-sampling for human papillomavirus (HPV) testing: a systematic review and meta-analysis (14 May, 2019)

  Ping Teresa Yeh, Caitlin E Kennedy, Hugo de Vuyst, Manjulaa Narasimhan
• The role of community health workers in cervical cancer screening in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic scoping review of the literature (13 May, 2019)

  James O’Donovan, Charles O’Donovan, Shobhana Nagraj
• Can community pharmacists improve tuberculosis case finding? A mixed methods intervention study in India (13 May, 2019)

  Amrita Daftary, Srinath Satyanarayana, Nita Jha, Mugdha Singh, Shinjini Mondal, Caroline Vadnais, Madhukar Pai
• Effects of an expanded Uber-like transport system on access to and use of maternal and newborn health services: findings of a prospective cohort study in Homa Bay, Kenya (13 May, 2019)

  Maricianah Atieno Onono, Samuel Wahome, Pauline Wekesa, Catherine Kidiga Adhu, Lawrence Wandei Waguma, Titus Serem, Mildred Anyango Owenga, Patricia Ong'wen
• How to improve antibiotic awareness campaigns: findings of a WHO global survey (9 May, 2019)

  Benedikt Huttner, Mirko Saam, Lorenzo Moja, Karen Mah, Marc Sprenger, Stephan Harbarth, Nicola Magrini
• Socioeconomic inequality in life expectancy in India (9 May, 2019)

  Miqdad Asaria, Sumit Mazumdar, Samik Chowdhury, Papiya Mazumdar, Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay, Indrani Gupta
• Gender-related differences in care-seeking behaviour for newborns: a systematic review of the evidence in South Asia (9 May, 2019)

  Sharif A. Ismail, Amy McCullough, Sufang Guo, Alyssa Sharkey, Sheeba Harma, Paul Rutter
• How to improve antibiotic awareness campaigns: findings of a WHO global survey (9 May, 2019)

  Benedikt Huttner, Mirko Saam, Lorenzo Moja, Karen Mah, Marc Sprenger, Stephan Harbarth, Nicola Magrini
• Agents of change among people living with HIV and their social networks: stepped-wedge randomised controlled trial of the NAMWEZA intervention in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

  (9 May, 2019)

  Mary C Smith Fawzi, Hellen Siril, Yuanyuan Liu, Keith McAdam, Donald Ainebyona, Elspeth McAdam, Magreat Somba, Kicki Oljemark, Neema Mleli, Jeffrey Lienert, Irene Andrew, Sabina Haberlen, Alice Simwinga, Jim Todd, Samwel Makongwa, Nan Li, Sylvia Kaaya
• Cost and cost-effectiveness of a parenting programme to prevent violence against adolescents in South Africa (9 May, 2019)

  Alice Redfern, Lucie D Cluver, Marisa Casale, Janina I Steinert
• Unsafe abortion and abortion-related death among 1.8 million women in India (2 May, 2019)

  Ryo Yokoe, Rachel Rowe, Saswati Sanyal Choudhury, Anjali Rani, Farzana Zahir, Manisha Nair