Table of contents

Original research

• Codevelopment of COVID-19 infection prevention and control guidelines in lower-middle-income countries: the ‘SPRINT’ principles (27 August, 2021)

  Victoria Haldane, Savithiri Ratnapalan, Niranjala Perera, Zhitong Zhang, Shiliang Ge, Mia Choi, Lincoln L Lau, Sudath Samaraweera, Warren Dodd, John Walley, Xiaolin Wei
• A cluster randomised trial of cookstove interventions to improve infant health in Ghana (27 August, 2021)

  Darby W Jack, Kenneth Ayuurebobi Ae-Ngibise, Carlos F Gould, Ellen Boamah-Kaali, Alison G Lee, Mohammed Nuhu Mujtaba, Steven Chillrud, Seyram Kaali, Ashlinn K Quinn, Stephaney Gyaase, Felix Boakye Oppong, Daniel Carrión, Oscar Agyei, Katrin Burkhart, Joseph A Ana-aro, Xinhua Liu, Yvonne Afrah Berko, Blair J Wylie, Seeba Amenga Etego, Robin Whyatt, Seth Owusu-Agyei, Patrick Kinney, Kwaku Poku Asante
• Indirect effects of COVID-19 on maternal, neonatal, child, sexual and reproductive health services in Kampala, Uganda (27 August, 2021)

  Jessica Florence Burt, Joseph Ouma, Lawrence Lubyayi, Alexander Amone, Lorna Aol, Musa Sekikubo, Annettee Nakimuli, Eve Nakabembe, Robert Mboizi, Philippa Musoke, Mary Kyohere, Emily Namara Lugolobi, Asma Khalil, Kirsty Le Doare
• Empowering the crowd: feasible strategies for epidemic management in high-density informal settlements. The case of COVID-19 in Northwest Syria (26 August, 2021)

  Alberto Pascual-García, Jordan D Klein, Jennifer Villers, Eduard Campillo-Funollet, Chamsy Sarkis
• Unlocking the health system barriers to maximise the uptake and utilisation of molecular diagnostics in low-income and middle-income country setting (24 August, 2021)

  Nyanda Elias Ntinginya, Davis Kuchaka, Fred Orina, Ivan Mwebaza, Alphonce Liyoyo, Barbara Miheso, Augustus Aturinde, Fred Njeleka, Kiula Kiula, Elizabeth F Msoka, Helen Meme, Erica Sanga, Simeon Mwanyonga, Willyhelmina Olomi, Linda Minja, Moses Joloba, Blandina T Mmbaga, Evans Amukoye, Stephen Henry Gillespie, Wilber Sabiiti
• Commercial use of evidence in public health policy: a critical assessment of food industry submissions to global-level consultations on non-communicable disease prevention (23 August, 2021)

  Kathrin Lauber, Darragh McGee, Anna B Gilmore
• Early childhood development and parental training interventions in rural China: a systematic review and meta-analysis (20 August, 2021)

  Dorien Emmers, Qi Jiang, Hao Xue, Yue Zhang, Yunting Zhang, Yingxue Zhao, Bin Liu, Sarah-Eve Dill, Yiwei Qian, Nele Warrinnier, Hannah Johnstone, Jianhua Cai, Xiaoli Wang, Lei Wang, Renfu Luo, Guirong Li, Jiajia Xu, Ming Liu, Yaqing Huang, Wenjie Shan, Zhihui Li, Yu Zhang, Sean Sylvia, Yue Ma, Alexis Medina, Scott Rozelle
• Community-based amoxicillin treatment for fast breathing pneumonia in young infants 7–59 days old: a cluster randomised trial in rural Bangladesh, Ethiopia, India and Malawi (20 August, 2021)

  Enhanced Management of Pneumonia in Community (EMPIC) Study, Yasir B Nisar
• Effectiveness of intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy with sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine (IPTp-SP) in Ghana (20 August, 2021)

  David Kwame Dosoo, Kezia Malm, Felix Boakye Oppong, Richard Gyasi, Abraham Oduro, John Williams, Dorcas Atibilla, Nana Yaw Peprah, Mieks Twumasi, Seth Owusu-Agyei, Brian Greenwood, Daniel Chandramohan, Kwaku Poku Asante
• Governance factors that affect the implementation of health financing reforms in Tanzania: an exploratory study of stakeholders’ perspectives (19 August, 2021)

  Doris Osei Afriyie, Brady Hooley, Grace Mhalu, Fabrizio Tediosi, Sally M Mtenga
• Are COVID-19 mitigation measures reducing preterm birth rate in China? (12 August, 2021)

  Zheng Bian, Xiaoxian Qu, Hao Ying, Xiaohua Liu
• Trends and outcomes in primary health care expenditures in low-income and middle-income countries, 2000–2017 (12 August, 2021)

  Matthew T Schneider, Angela Y Chang, Sawyer W Crosby, Stephen Gloyd, Anton C Harle, Stephen Lim, Rafael Lozano, Angela E Micah, Golsum Tsakalos, Yanfang Su, Christopher J L Murray, Joseph L Dieleman
• Inverse correlates of COVID-19 mortality across European countries during the first versus subsequent waves (9 August, 2021)

  Leonardo Villani, Roberta Pastorino, Walter Ricciardi, John Ioannidis, Stefania Boccia
• Under-five malnutrition among Palestine refugee children living in camps in Jordan: a mixed-methods study (4 August, 2021)

  Nada AbuKishk, Hannah Gilbert, Akihiro Seita, Joia Mukherjee, Peter J Rohloff
• Disregarding the restrictive vial-opening policy for BCG vaccine in Guinea-Bissau: impact and cost-effectiveness for tuberculosis mortality and all-cause mortality in children aged 0–4 years (3 August, 2021)

  Sanne M Thysen, Ane Baerent Fisker, Stine Byberg, Peter Aaby, Partho Roy, Richard White, Ulla Griffiths, Rebecca C Harris
• 30 years of polio campaigns in Ethiopia, India and Nigeria: the impacts of campaign design on vaccine hesitancy and health worker motivation (3 August, 2021)

  Abigail H Neel, Svea Closser, Catherine Villanueva, Piyusha Majumdar, S D Gupta, Daniel Krugman, Oluwaseun Oladapo Akinyemi, Wakgari Deressa, Anna Kalbarczyk, Olakunle Alonge
• The journey to UHC: how well are vertical programmes integrated in the health benefits package? A scoping review (3 August, 2021)

  Lydia Regan, David Wilson, Kalipso Chalkidou, Y-Ling Chi
• Abortion-related morbidity in six Latin American and Caribbean countries: findings of the WHO/HRP multi-country survey on abortion (MCS-A) (20 August, 2021)

  Mariana Romero, Rodolfo Gomez Ponce de Leon, Luiz Francisco Baccaro, Berenise Carroli, Hedieh Mehrtash, Jimena Randolino, Elisa Menjivar, Erika Estevez Saint-Hilaire, Maria del Pilar Huatuco, Rosalinda Hernandez Muñoz, Gabriela Garcia Camacho, Soe Soe Thwin, Liana Campodonico, Edgardo Abalos, Daniel Giordano, Hugo Gamerro, Caron Rahn Kim, Bela Ganatra, Metin Gülmezoglu, Özge Tuncalp, Guillermo Carroli
• The genomic epidemiology of multi-drug resistant invasive non-typhoidal Salmonella in selected sub-Saharan African countries

  (2 August, 2021)

  Se Eun Park, Duy Thanh Pham, Gi Deok Pak, Ursula Panzner, Ligia Maria Cruz Espinoza, Vera von Kalckreuth, Justin Im, Ondari D. Mogeni, Heidi Schütt-Gerowitt, John A Crump, Robert F Breiman, Yaw Adu-Sarkodie, Ellis Owusu-Dabo, Raphaël Rakotozandrindrainy, Abdramane Bassiahi Soura, Abraham Aseffa, Nagla Gasmelseed, Arvinda Sooka, Karen H Keddy, Jürgen May, Peter Aaby, Holly M Biggs, Julian T Hertz, Joel M Montgomery, Leonard Cosmas, Beatrice Olack, Barry Fields, Nimako Sarpong, Tsiriniaina Jean Luco Razafindrabe, Tiana Mirana Raminosoa, Leon Parfait Kabore, Emmanuel Sampo, Mekonnen Teferi, Biruk Yeshitela, Muna Ahmed El Tayeb, Ralf Krumkamp, Denise Myriam Dekker, Anna Jaeger, Adama Tall, Amy Gassama, Aissatou Niang, Morten Bjerregaard-Andersen, Sandra Valborg Løfberg, Jessica Fung Deerin, Jin Kyung Park, Frank Konings, Megan E Carey, Sandra Van Puyvelde, Mohammad Ali, John Clemens, Gordon Dougan, Stephen Baker, Florian Marks
• Prevalence and determinants of inappropriate antibiotic dispensing at private drug retail outlets in urban and rural areas of Indonesia: a mixed methods study (3 August, 2021)

  Luh Putu Lila Wulandari, Mishal Khan, Marco Liverani, Astri Ferdiana, Yusuf Ari Mashuri, Ari Probandari, Tri Wibawa, Neha Batura, Gill Schierhout, John Kaldor, Rebecca Guy, Matthew Law, Richard Day, Johanna Hanefeld, Harry Parathon, Stephen Jan, Shunmay Yeung, Virginia Wiseman
• Projecting sex imbalances at birth at global, regional and national levels from 2021 to 2100: scenario-based Bayesian probabilistic projections of the sex ratio at birth and missing female births based on 3.26 billion birth records (2 August, 2021)

  Fengqing Chao, Patrick Gerland, Alex Richard Cook, Christophe Z Guilmoto, Leontine Alkema