The Lancet Global Health: October 2024, Volume 12, Issue 10

All registered pharmacy- and healthcare professionals in Kenya.

The October 2024 issue of The Lancet Global Health include the following 30 articles:
(with a curated selection of 10 articles* available for download)

• Through the lens of patienthood
• Addressing global micronutrient inadequacies: enhancing global data representation
• RSV burden and prevention in children in LMICs
• The potential distraction of a pan-regimen approach to tuberculosis
• Intravenous ferric carboxymaltose for iron deficiency anaemia in pregnancy
• Enhancing preventive treatment for malaria in pregnancy: insights from a trial on targeted information transfer
• Increasing uptake of integrated schistosomiasis treatment and HIV screening services in fishermen at high risk of comorbidities in Malawi
• Primary health-care orientation of health systems in the WHO South-East Asia Region: from addressing disease to assuring health and wellbeing
• What can we learn from developments in primary health care in south Asia?
• Mpox outbreaks in Africa constitute a public health emergency of continental security
• Africa should research the long-term sequelae of mpox
• Access to highly effective long-acting RSV-monoclonal antibodies for children in LMICs—reducing global inequity
• From reform to excellence: the future of health care in Egypt
• Working with the news media for the greater good
• Access in the rare diseases landscape
• Revolution in microbiological diagnostics needs LMIC solutions
• Global estimation of dietary micronutrient inadequacies: a modelling analysis *
• Population attributable fractions for risk factors for dementia in seven Latin American countries: an analysis using cross-sectional survey data *
• Respiratory syncytial virus infection among children younger than 2 years admitted to a paediatric intensive care unit with extended severe acute respiratory infection in ten Gavi-eligible countries: the RSV GOLD—ICU Network study *
• Evaluating national infection prevention and control minimum requirements: evidence from global cross-sectional surveys, 2017–22 *
• Projected health and economic effects of a pan-tuberculosis treatment regimen: a modelling study *
• Assessing the effect of health system resources on HIV and tuberculosis programmes in Malawi: a modelling study *
• Intravenous versus oral iron for anaemia among pregnant women in Nigeria (IVON): an open-label, randomised controlled trial *
• Delivery effectiveness of and adherence to intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in pregnancy with dihydroartemisinin–piperaquine with or without targeted information transfer or sulfadoxine–pyrimethamine in western Kenya: a three-armed, pragmatic, open-label, cluster-randomised trial *
• Combined interventions for the testing and treatment of HIV and schistosomiasis among fishermen in Malawi: a three-arm, cluster-randomised trial *
• Ebola disease outbreak caused by the Sudan virus in Uganda, 2022: a descriptive epidemiological study *
• The state of primary health care in south Asia
• Delivering non-communicable disease services through primary health care in selected south Asian countries: are health systems prepared?
• Improving urban health through primary health care in south Asia
• Improving Ebola virus disease outbreak control through targeted post-exposure prophylaxis

The assessment (MCQ) must be successfully completed to receive your certificate - two (2) attempts to achieve 70%.

The Quiz is based on the following two (2) articles:

• Evaluating national infection prevention and control minimum requirements: evidence from global cross-sectional surveys, 2017–22
• Projected health and economic effects of a pan-tuberculosis treatment regimen: a modelling study