Background Racial and ethnic disparities in infectious disease burden have been reported in the USA and globally, most recently during the COVID-19 pandemic. It remains unclear whether such ...

Paul Bukuluki, Simon Ndira, Juliet Aweko, Angelica Kiwummulo, Michael Ediau, Justine Namakula, Elizabeth Ekirapa-Kiracho, Peter Waiswa, John J O Mogaka, Grace Bantebya ...

Background Outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases frequently occur in low and middle-income countries (LMICs), requiring outbreak response immunisation (ORI) programmes for containment. To inform ...

The challenge of ensuring elderly people can access their health insurance entitlements: a mixed methods study on the Republic of Srpska’s Protector of Patients’ Health Insurance Entitlements (15 ...

Background Ghana implemented several health reforms in the 1970s and 1990s. Still, several access barriers persist, including high out-of-pocket (OOP) spending, which led to the implementation of the ...

High-burden cholera outbreaks, spreading beyond the traditional cholera-endemic countries, have been reported since 2021 in the WHO African region. Member states in the region have committed to the ...

Background Development assistance for health (DAH) plays a vital role in supporting health programmes in low- and middle-income countries. While DAH has historically focused on infectious diseases and ...

Donkin A, Goldblatt P, Allen J, et al. Global action on the social determinants of health. BMJ Glob Health 2017;3:e000603. doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2017-000603.

Introduction Chikungunya is a mosquito-borne arboviral disease posing an emerging global public health threat. Understanding the global burden of chikungunya is critical for designing effective ...

Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic triggered one of the largest global health and economic crises in recent history. COVID-19 vaccination (CV) has been the central tool for global health and ...

Social, cultural and political conditions for advancing health equity: examples from eight country case studies (2011–2021) (23 October, 2024) ...

COVID-19 has posed an unprecedented global health crisis, demanding timely, reliable information on the pandemic’s progression to inform the public and guide decision-making. The WHO’s COVID-19 Weekly ...