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3. Good health and well-being

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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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  • Health & Prosperity – Conference Report

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    On 10 March, KIT Institute hosted the high-level conference “Health and Prosperity: How Dutch Investments in Global Health Drive Security and Economic Growth”, bringing together key stakeholders to examine the Netherlands’ investment role in global health initiatives. This event will highlight the economic and societal return on investment of Dutch contributions to global health financing, which […]

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  • The availability of essential medicines in public healthcare facilities in Afghanistan: navigating sociopolitical and geographical challenges

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    In this study, KIT epidemiologists and research partners in Afghanistan examine the availability of essential medicines in Afghanistan’s public healthcare facilities and how this is shaped by sociopolitical challenges, geographical barriers, and the organisation of the healthcare system. They conclude that decentralised procurement of medicines by non-state actors and timely payment of funds contribute to medicine […]

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  • BRIDGE Mentorship Initiative

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    The BRIDGE Mentorship Initiative is based on the BRIDGE guidelines for good epidemiological practice in epidemiology. The pilot programme has been initiated in partnership with Institute of Tropical Medicine in Belgium. Our goal is for the initiative to bring researchers conducting epidemiological studies around the globe together. Recent developments in research integrity led by researchers […]

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  • Assessing the health workforce in Afghanistan: a situational analysis into the country’s capacity for Universal health coverage

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    After decades of conflict and instability, the Afghan health workforce has critical shortages and challenges in equitable distribution. KIT researchers, in collaboration with WHO, conducted a national assessment investigating the number of health workers and their distribution across cadres, geographies, and gender.

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  • Disaster Impact Mapping for Health Facilities in Afghanistan

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    This project aimed to map the risks and potential disruptions to critical health facilities in Afghanistan due to natural disasters, using satellite imagery, GPS data, and service delivery information. By identifying direct and accessibility-related impacts on health facilities, KIT Institute provided national risk and service impact maps to help organizations, like MSF, enhance disaster preparedness […]

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  • Assessing Health Facility Preparedness for Disaster Events in Afghanistan

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    Afghanistan regularly experiences extreme weather and geological hazards resulting in a high burden of mortality, health systems impacts, and economic damage. With climate change and seismic risks, Afghanistan’s health system must adapt by identifying vulnerabilities and enhancing preparedness. This research reviewed the existing tools for assessing health facility preparedness. In addition, through expert involvement, a […]

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  • Predicting communities with hightuberculosis case-finding efficiency tooptimise resource allocation in Pakistan: comparing the performance of anegative binomial spatial lag modelwith a Bayesian machine-learningmodel

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    Despite progress in tuberculosis (TB) treatment coverage in past years, an estimated 183000 people with TB may not have been diagnosed in Pakistan in 2022. Therefore, there is a need to develop models which help to steer active case finding (ACF) towards populations with a high probability of having undetected TB. The aim of this […]

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  • Mid-Term Review (MTR) of the Netherlands’Regional Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights and HIV/AIDS program in Southern Africa

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    The Embassy of the Netherlands in Mozambique commissioned KIT Institute to review progress of the regional SRHR/HIV Programme in Southern Africa. The second phase of this Regional Programme (2021–2026 with a budget of 89 million Euro) focuses on improving the quality of life for young people aged 10–29, particularly those in vulnerable situations. The Mid […]

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  • Determinants of health seeking behaviour in South Sudan: a cross-sectional household survey

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    Access to healthcare is a major challenge in South Sudan, but evidence on the factors influencing health seeking behaviour (HSB) and the magnitude of their effect is limited. This study aims to identify which determinants are associated with seeking care for perceived health needs and with seeking care at private or public healthcare facilities in […]

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