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  • An implementation framework for introducing obstetric ultrasound in new contexts

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    Over the past decade the global uptake of ultrasound technology and innovations to bring ultrasound closer to the people have increased substantially, offering a significant potential to improve maternal and new born health. To leverage its full potential, safeguard quality and protect the reproductive rights of of women, it is imperative to critically examine and […]

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  • Adolescents’ and young people’s perspectives on school-based sexuality education in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review

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    Sexuality education is essential for adolescents’ and young people’s health, well-being, and rights. While recognised in policies worldwide, gaps remain in its implementation. This review explores youth perspectives on school-based sexuality education in low- and middle-income countries to understand their needs, experiences, and preferences. A scoping review was conducted across five academic databases and key […]

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  • Health workforce resilience in the age of polycrisis: A framework to support health workforce policy and planning

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    Many countries face prolonged health workforce crises, marked by shortages, maldistribution, skills mix imbalances and attrition. When workforces are overstretched, they become more vulnerable to external shocks and chronic strains, including infectious disease outbreaks, climate-related effects and political instability. This is particularly concerning as an emerging global “polycrisis” means such external pressures increasingly interact and […]

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  • The Gaza health information system: Rebuilding for a resilient future

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    The ongoing Israel-Gaza war has led to the rampant destruction and disruption of much of Gaza’s health system, including the deliberate targeting of civilian infrastructure and the loss of access to essential medical services [1,2]. These losses include the critical infrastructure and capacity for Gaza’s once-robust Health Information System (HIS). The disruption to the HIS […]

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  • Geospatial tools and data for health service delivery

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    As extreme weather events increase in frequency and intensity, the health system faces significant challenges, not only from shifting patterns of climate-sensitive diseases but also from disruptions to healthcare infrastructure, supply chains and the physical systems essential for delivering care. This necessitates the strategic use of geospatial tools to guide the delivery of healthcare services […]

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  • Professional societies of obstetrics and gynecology as agents of change in sexual and reproductive health

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    In 2019, FIGO started implementing its abortion project focusing on advocacy. The Advocacy for Safe Abortion (ASA) Project was conducted in partnership with 10 national professional societies of obstetrics and gynecology in Latin America and Africa. The project aimed to strengthen national societies, support them to be leaders in sexual and reproductive health, and enable […]

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  • The role of healthcare providers in expanding legal abortion:Qualitative insights from Argentina, Ireland, and South Korea

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    Abortion laws are key in creating an enabling environment that facilitates the advancement of people’s sexual and reproductive health and rights. Around 50 countries have liberalized their abortion laws in the last decades by adding new grounds allowing abortion. The road toward the expansion of legal abortion is a long, highly sensitive, and difficult process. […]

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  • Blurring the lines Journalism and epidemiology in the time of corona

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    Journalism has borrowed tools and expertise from epidemiology in reporting on Covid-19. Epidemiologists should borrow from journalists too, says Sandra Alba

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  • Finagle’s laws of information: lessons learnt evaluating a complex health intervention in Nigeria

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    Evaluations cannot support evidence-informed decision making if they do not provide the information needed by decision-makers. In this article, we reflect on our own difficulties evaluating the Geo Referenced Infrastructure and Demographic Data for Development (GRID3) approach, an intervention that provides high-resolution demographic and geographical information to support health service delivery. GRID3 was implemented in […]

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  • The Cape Town Statement on fairness, equity and diversity in research

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    The benefits of scientific collaboration are too often skewed towards wealthier countries. Bioethicists and others present guidance on how stakeholders such as researchers can change this.

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  • Bats, parachutes and bridges: How can epidemiologists improve global health research practice?

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    Epidemiologist Sandra Alba is part of a team that developed a new set of guidelines to address issues of research integrity and fairness in international health research collaborations. She explains what the guidelines hope to achieve, and how.

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  • Music, tuberculosis and stats: Lessons from a Ugandan pop star

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    Epidemiologists Sandra Alba and Amera Khan catch up with Bebe Cool, their superstar collaborator on a passion-fuelled project to combat TB.

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