Anthony Fish Hodgson, Jason Bantjes, Jane Pirkis, et al. Alcohol restrictions and suicide rates in South Africa during the ...

Universal access to insulin remains a global public health challenge mainly due to its high price. After unsuccessful healthcare reforms attempting to lower insulin prices over the past several ...

Background For many diseases, early diagnosis and treatment are more cost-effective, reduce community spread of infectious diseases and result in better patient outcomes. However, healthcare-seeking ...

Plastic pollution—unmanaged disposal of plastic waste in water and on land—is a growing global crisis affecting the environment and animals, and an expanding body of evidence suggests negative impacts ...

Background Report-back of individual exposure information to research participants is recognised in high-income countries as an important, yet often overlooked, component of environmental research, ...

One of the obstacles to domesticating and operationalising continental commitments that promote adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is the lack of ...

Previous research has examined the effects of climate change on dengue, mainly focusing on probability estimates and human populations at risk. While some studies have analysed past and present ...

Israt Jahan, Unise Vakaloloma, Sureni Perera, Ilisapeci Tuibeqa, Rachel Devi, Litiana Volavola, William May, Donald Wilson, Lanieta Tuimabu, Rosalie Power, Susan ...

Over the past decade, the Caribbean region has been challenged by compound climate and health hazards, including tropical storms, extreme heat and droughts and overlapping epidemics of mosquito-borne ...

In the last decade, hundreds of initiatives that send health information messages through mobile phone networks have emerged in low-resource countries. Most of these have been small in scale, with ...

Introduction Data on morbidity, mortality and cost for malaria-related hospitalisation are important for prioritising resources for malaria control strategies, but these data are often limited. The ...

On 5 March 2020, South Africa recorded its first case of imported COVID-19. Since then, cases in South Africa have increased exponentially with significant community transmission. A multisectoral ...