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Original research

• Neonatal mortality in Kenyan hospitals: a multisite, retrospective, cohort study (31 May, 2021)

  Grace Irimu, Jalemba Aluvaala, Lucas Malla, Sylvia Omoke, Morris Ogero, George Mbevi, Mary Waiyego, Caroline Mwangi, Fred Were, David Gathara, Ambrose Agweyu, Samuel Akech, Mike English
• Monitoring progress with national and subnational health goals by integrating verbal autopsy and medically certified cause of death data (31 May, 2021)

  Tim Adair, Sonja Firth, Tint Pa Pa Phyo, Khin Sandar Bo, Alan D Lopez
• Assessing vaccine introduction and uptake timelines in Gavi-supported countries: are introduction timelines accelerating across vaccine delivery platforms? (27 May, 2021)

  Karuna Luthra, Anna Zimmermann Jin, Prarthana Vasudevan, Karen Kirk, Carol Marzetta, Lois Privor-Dumm
• Exploring equity in health and poverty impacts of control measures for SARS-CoV-2 in six countries (26 May, 2021)

  Sedona Sweeney, Theo Prudencio Juhani Capeding, Rosalind Eggo, Maryam Huda, Mark Jit, Don Mudzengi, Nichola R Naylor, Simon Procter, Matthew Quaife, Lela Serebryakova, Sergio Torres-Rueda, Veronica Vargas, CHiL COVID Working Group, Anna Vassall
• The evolution of parents’ beliefs about childhood cancer during diagnostic communication: a qualitative study in Guatemala (26 May, 2021)

  Dylan Graetz, Silvia Rivas, Lucia Fuentes, Ana Cáceres-Serrano, Gia Ferrara, Federico Antillon-Klussmann, Monika Metzger, Carlos Rodriguez-Galindo, Jennifer W Mack
• Economic and cost-effectiveness analysis of the Community-Level Interventions for Pre-eclampsia (CLIP) trials in India, Pakistan and Mozambique (24 May, 2021)

  Jeffrey N Bone, Asif R Khowaja, Marianne Vidler, Beth A Payne, Mrutyunjaya B Bellad, Shivaprasad S Goudar, Ashalata A Mallapur, Khatia Munguambe, Rahat N Qureshi, Charfudin Sacoor, Esperanca Sevene, Geert W J Frederix, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Craig Mitton, Laura A Magee, Peter von Dadelszen
• Parental and professional perceptions of informed consent and participation in a time-critical neonatal trial: a mixed-methods study in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh (21 May, 2021)

  Stuti Pant, Maya Annie Elias, Kerry Woolfall, Maria Moreno Morales, Bensitta Lincy, Ismat Jahan, Samanmali P Sumanasena, Siddarth Ramji, Seetha Shankaran, Sudhin Thayyil
• Mismatched ambition, execution and outcomes: implementing maternal death surveillance and response system in Mtwara region, Tanzania (21 May, 2021)

  Ali Said, Nathanael Sirili, Siriel Massawe, Andrea B Pembe, Claudia Hanson, Mats Malqvist
• Associations between low HDL, sex and cardiovascular risk markers are substantially different in sub-Saharan Africa and the UK: analysis of four population studies (20 May, 2021)

  Rosamund Greiner, Moffat Nyirenda, Lauren Rodgers, Gershim Asiki, Louis Banda, Beverley Shields, Andrew Hattersley, Amelia Crampin, Robert Newton, Angus Jones
• A scoping review of paediatric latent tuberculosis infection care cascades: initial steps are lacking (20 May, 2021)

  Jeffrey I Campbell, Thomas J Sandora, Jessica E Haberer
• HPV self-sampling for cervical cancer screening: a systematic review of values and preferences (19 May, 2021)

  Holly Nishimura, Ping Teresa Yeh, Habibat Oguntade, Caitlin E Kennedy, Manjulaa Narasimhan
• Recent sex ratio at birth in China (18 May, 2021)

  Quanbao Jiang, Cuiling Zhang
• What empirical research has been undertaken on the ethics of clinical research in India? A systematic scoping review and narrative synthesis (18 May, 2021)

  Sangeetha Paramasivan, Philippa Davies, Alison Richards, Julia Wade, Leila Rooshenas, Nicola Mills, Alba Realpe, Jeffrey Pradeep Raj, Supriya Subramani, Jonathan Ives, Richard Huxtable, Jane M Blazeby, Jenny L Donovan
• Completeness and quality of low back pain prevalence data in the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 (17 May, 2021)

  Mamata Tamrakar, Priti Kharel, Adrian Traeger, Chris Maher, Mary O'Keeffe, Giovanni Ferreira
• Effects of a community-driven water, sanitation and hygiene intervention on water and sanitation infrastructure, access, behaviour, and governance: a cluster-randomised controlled trial in rural Democratic Republic of Congo (17 May, 2021)

  John Paul Quattrochi, Aidan Coville, Eric Mvukiyehe, Caleb Jeremie Dohou, Federica Esu, Byron Cohen, Yannick Lokaya Bokasola, Kevin Croke
• Self-management of iron and folic acid supplementation during pre-pregnancy, pregnancy and postnatal periods: a systematic review (14 May, 2021)

  Shannon E King, Ping Teresa Yeh, Dong Keun Rhee, Özge Tuncalp, Lisa M Rogers, Manjulaa Narasimhan
• Quality of care for tuberculosis and HIV in the private health sector: a cross-sectional, standardised patient study in South Africa (14 May, 2021)

  Jody Boffa, Sizulu Moyo, Jeremiah Chikovore, Angela Salomon, Benjamin Daniels, Ada T Kwan, Madhukar Pai, Amrita Daftary
• Scoping review of research on self-managed medication abortion in low-income and middle-income countries (13 May, 2021)

  Annik Sorhaindo, Gilda Sedgh
• The gender and geography of publishing: a review of sex/gender reporting and author representation in leading general medical and global health journals (13 May, 2021)

  Rebekah Merriman, Ilaria Galizia, Sonja Tanaka, Ashley Sheffel, Kent Buse, Sarah Hawkes
• Why do people purchase antibiotics over-the-counter? A qualitative study with patients, clinicians and dispensers in central, eastern and western Nepal (11 May, 2021)

  Bipin Adhikari, Sunil Pokharel, Shristi Raut, Janak Adhikari, Suman Thapa, Kumar Paudel, Narayan G C, Sandesh Neupane, Sanjeev Raj Neupane, Rakesh Yadav, Sirapa Shrestha, Komal Raj Rijal, Sujan B Marahatta, Phaik Yeong Cheah, Christopher Pell
• Health system influences on the implementation of tuberculosis infection prevention and control at health facilities in low-income and middle-income countries: a scoping review (11 May, 2021)

  Gimenne Zwama, Karin Diaconu, Anna S Voce, Fiona O'May, Alison D Grant, Karina Kielmann
• Child mortality associated with maternal HIV status: a retrospective analysis in Rwanda, 2005-2015 (11 May, 2021)

  Eric Remera, Frédérique Chammartin, Sabin Nsanzimana, Jamie Ian Forrest, Gerald E Smith, Placidie Mugwaneza, Samuel S Malamba, Muhammed Semakula, Jeanine U Condo, Nathan Ford, David J Riedel, Marie Paul Nisingizwe, Agnes Binagwaho, Edward J Mills, Heiner Bucher
• Assessing trauma care systems in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and evidence synthesis mapping the Three Delays framework to injury health system assessments (11 May, 2021)

  John Whitaker, Nollaig O'Donohoe, Max Denning, Dan Poenaru, Elena Guadagno, Andrew J M Leather, Justine I Davies
• A bibliometric analysis of COVID-19 research in Africa (10 May, 2021)

  Fatuma Hassan Guleid, Robinson Oyando, Evelyn Kabia, Audrey Mumbi, Samuel Akech, Edwine Barasa
• Health spending and vaccination coverage in low-income countries (6 May, 2021)

  Francisco Castillo-Zunino, Pinar Keskinocak, Dima Nazzal, Matthew C Freeman
• Effectiveness of a national mass distribution campaign of long-lasting insecticide-treated nets and indoor residual spraying on clinical malaria in Malawi, 2018–2020 (4 May, 2021)

  Hillary M Topazian, Austin Gumbo, Katerina Brandt, Michael Kayange, Jennifer S Smith, Jessie K Edwards, Varun Goel, Tisungane Mvalo, Michael Emch, Audrey E Pettifor, Jonathan J Juliano, Irving Hoffman
• Integration of non-communicable disease and HIV/AIDS management: a review of healthcare policies and plans in East Africa (4 May, 2021)

  Olukemi Adeyemi, Mary Lyons, Tsi Njim, Joseph Okebe, Josephine Birungi, Kevin Nana, Jean Claude Mbanya, Sayoki Mfinanga, Kaushik Ramaiya, Shabbar Jaffar, Anupam Garrib
• The mortality effects of disregarding the strategy to save doses of measles vaccine: a cluster-randomised trial in Guinea-Bissau (3 May, 2021)

  Stine Byberg, Peter Aaby, Amabelia Rodrigues, Christine Stabell Benn, Ane Baerent Fisker