Table of contents

Original research

• Understanding abortion-related complications in health facilities: results from WHO multicountry survey on abortion (MCS-A) across 11 sub-Saharan African countries (29 January, 2021)

  Zahida Qureshi, Hedieh Mehrtash, Seni Kouanda, Sally Griffin, Veronique Filippi, Philip Govule, Soe Soe Thwin, Folasade Adenike Bello, Luis Gadama, Ausbert Thoko Msusa, Nafiou Idi, Sourou Goufodji, Caron Rahn Kim, Jean-Jose Wolomby-Molondo, Kidza Yvonne Mugerwa, Cassimo Bique, Richard Adanu, Bukola Fawole, Thierry Madjadoum, Ahmet Metin Gülmezoglu, Bela Ganatra, Özge Tunçalp
• Words matter: political and gender analysis of speeches made by heads of government during the COVID-19 pandemic (29 January, 2021)

  Sara Dada, Henry Charles Ashworth, Marlene Joannie Bewa, Roopa Dhatt
• Abortion metrics: a scoping review of abortion measures and indicators (29 January, 2021)

  Veronique Filippi, Mardieh Dennis, Clara Calvert, Özge Tunçalp, Bela Ganatra, Caron Rahn Kim, Carine Ronsmans
• Effect of a home-visiting parenting program to promote early childhood development and prevent violence: a cluster-randomized trial in Rwanda (29 January, 2021)

  Sarah KG Jensen, Matias Placencio-Castro, Shauna M Murray, Robert T Brennan, Simo Goshev, Jordan Farrar, Aisha Yousafzai, Laura B Rawlings, Briana Wilson, Emmanuel Habyarimana, Vincent Sezibera, Theresa S Betancourt
• Access to personal protective equipment in exposed healthcare workers and COVID-19 illness, severity, symptoms and duration: a population-based case-control study in six countries (28 January, 2021)

  Hyunju Kim, Sheila Hegde, Christine LaFiura, Madhunika Raghavan, Nancy Sun, Susan Cheng, Casey M Rebholz, Sara B Seidelmann
• Community-level spillover effects of an intervention to prevent intimate partner violence and HIV transmission in rural Ethiopia (28 January, 2021)

  Jessica Leight, Negussie Deyessa, Fabio Verani, Samuel Tewolde, Vandana Sharma
• Impact of mobile phone delivered reminders and unconditional incentives on measles-containing vaccine timeliness and coverage: a randomised controlled trial in western Kenya (28 January, 2021)

  E Wangeci Kagucia, Benard Ochieng, Joyce Were, Kyla Hayford, David Obor, Katherine L O'Brien, Dustin G Gibson
• How global is global health research? A large-scale analysis of trends in authorship (26 January, 2021)

  Michelle C Dimitris, Matthew Gittings, Nicholas B King
• “In cities, it’s not far, but it takes long”: comparing estimated and replicated travel times to reach life-saving obstetric care in Lagos, Nigeria (25 January, 2021)

  Aduragbemi Banke-Thomas, Kerry L M Wong, Francis Ifeanyi Ayomoh, Rokibat Olabisi Giwa-Ayedun, Lenka Benova
• Estimating the burden of cardiovascular risk in community dwellers over 40 years old in South Africa, Kenya, Burkina Faso and Ghana (21 January, 2021)

  Ryan G Wagner, Nigel J Crowther, Lisa K Micklesfield, Palwende Romauld Boua, Engelbert A Nonterah, Felistas Mashinya, Shukri F Mohamed, Gershim Asiki, Stephen Tollman, Michèle Ramsay, Justine I Davies
• Learning from changes concurrent with implementing a complex and dynamic intervention to improve urban maternal and perinatal health in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 2011-2019 (21 January, 2021)

  Brenda Sequeira Dmello, Ziada Sellah, Grace Magembe, Natasha Housseine, Nanna Maaløe, Thomas van den Akker, Dan W Meyrowitsch, Timothy Mushi, Mangalu Masweko, Dorcas Jidayi, Jos van Roosmalen, Hussein L Kidanto
• Conference equity in global health: a systematic review of factors impacting LMIC representation at global health conferences (20 January, 2021)

  Lotta Velin, Jean-Wilguens Lartigue, Samantha Ann Johnson, Anudari Zorigtbaatar, Ulrick Sidney Kanmounye, Paul Truche, Michelle Nyah Joseph
• Predictors of disease severity in children presenting from the community with febrile illnesses: a systematic review of prognostic studies (20 January, 2021)

  Arjun Chandna, Rainer Tan, Michael Carter, Ann Van Den Bruel, Jan Verbakel, Constantinos Koshiaris, Nahya Salim, Yoel Lubell, Paul Turner, Kristina Keitel
• Effect of micronutrient supplements on influenza and other respiratory tract infections among adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis (19 January, 2021)

  Ajibola Ibraheem Abioye, Sabri Bromage, Wafaie Fawzi
• Workforce capacity for the care of patients with kidney failure across world countries and regions (18 January, 2021)

  Parnian Riaz, Fergus Caskey, Mark McIsaac, Razeen Davids, Htay Htay, Vivekanand Jha, Kailash Jindal, Min Jun, Maryam Khan, Adera Levin, Meaghan Lunney, Ikechi Okpechi, Roberto Pecoits-Filho, Mohamed A Osman, Tushar Vachharajani, Feng Ye, David Harris, Marcello Tonelli, David Johnson, Aminu Bello
• Decomposing the rural–urban gap in factors associated with childhood immunisation in sub-Saharan Africa: evidence from surveys in 23 countries (15 January, 2021)

  Edward Kwabena Ameyaw, Yusuf Olushola Kareem, Bright Opoku Ahinkorah, Abdul-Aziz Seidu, Sanni Yaya
• The effectiveness of training strategies to improve healthcare provider practices in low-income and middle-income countries (15 January, 2021)

  Alexander K Rowe, Samantha Y Rowe, David H Peters, Kathleen A Holloway, Dennis Ross-Degnan
• Transitioning from donor aid for health: perspectives of national stakeholders in Ghana (13 January, 2021)

  Wenhui Mao, Kaci Kennedy McDade, Hanna E Huffstetler, Joseph Dodoo, Daniel Nana Yaw Abankwah, Nathaniel Coleman, Judy Riviere, Jiaqi Zhang, Justice Nonvignon, Ipchita Bharali, Shashika Bandara, Osondu Ogbuoji, Gavin Yamey
• Principles guiding ethical research in a collaboration to strengthen Indigenous primary healthcare in Australia: learning from experience (13 January, 2021)

  Jodie Bailie, Alison Frances Laycock, Kathleen Parker Conte, Veronica Matthews, David Peiris, Ross Stewart Bailie, Seye Abimbola, Megan Elizabeth Passey, Frances Clare Cunningham, Kerryn Harkin, Roxanne Gwendalyn Bainbridge
• Why onchocerciasis transmission persists after 15 annual ivermectin mass drug administrations in South-West Cameroon (11 January, 2021)

  Armelle Forrer, Samuel Wanji, Elisabeth Dibando Obie, Theobald Mue Nji, Louise Hamill, Kim Ozano, Helen Piotrowski, Laura Dean, Abdel J Njouendou, Relindis Ekanya, Winston Patrick Chounna Ndongmo, Ebua Gallus Fung, Dum-Buo Nnamdi, Raphael A Abong, Amuam Andrew Beng, Mathias Esum Eyong, Bertrand L Ndzeshang, Desmond Akumtoh Nkimbeng, Samuel Teghen, Anicetus Suireng, Ernerstine Ebot Ashu, Emmanuel Kah, Michele M Murdoch, Rachael Thomson, Sally Theobald, Peter Enyong, Joseph D Turner, Mark J Taylor
• Boundaries of solidarity: a meta-ethnography of mask use during past epidemics to inform SARS-CoV-2 suppression (6 January, 2021)

  Po Man Tsang, Audrey Prost
• Towards an appropriate ethics framework for Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems (HDSS): learning from issues faced in diverse HDSS in sub-Saharan Africa (6 January, 2021)

  Alex Nginyo Hinga, Sassy Molyneux, Vicki Marsh
• State of the evidence: a survey of global disparities in clinical trials (5 January, 2021)

  Iain James Marshall, Veline L'Esperance, Rachel Marshall, James Thomas, Anna Noel-Storr, Frank Soboczenski, Benjamin Nye, Ani Nenkova, Byron C Wallace
• Tobacco imagery in entertainment media: evolution of tobacco-free movies and television programmes rules in India (5 January, 2021)

  Amit Yadav, Stanton A Glantz