Table of contents

Original research

• Early disengagement from HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis services and associated factors among female sex workers in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: a socioecological approach (28 December, 2023)

  Hanne Ochieng Lichtwarck, Christopher Hariri Mbotwa, Method Rwelengera Kazaura, Kåre Moen, Elia John Mmbaga
• The role of social media in public health crises caused by infectious disease: a scoping review (28 December, 2023)

  Kirsty Terry, Fei Yang, Qiang Yao, Chaojie Liu
• Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the coverage and timeliness of routine childhood vaccinations in the Gambia, 2015–2021 (26 December, 2023)

  Oghenebrume Wariri, Chigozie Edson Utazi, Uduak Okomo, Alieu Sowe, Malick Sogur, Sidat Fofanna, Esu Ezeani, Lamin Saidy, Golam Sarwar, Bai-Lamin Dondeh, Kris A Murray, Chris Grundy, Beate Kampmann
• Understanding rural women's preferences for telephone call engagement with primary health care providers in Nigeria: a discrete choice experiment (26 December, 2023)

  Nasir Umar, Zelee Hill, Joanna Schellenberg, Nuraddeen Umar Sambo, Abdulrahman Shuaibu, Abdulkarim M Aliyu, Kallah Kirpu Kulani, Muhammad U Abdullahi, Ahmed Usman, Hafsat Mohammed, Hajara Adamu, Maryam Ibrahim, Adamu Mohammed, Adama Abdulhamid, Zainab Muhammed, Afodiya Alfayo, Tanya Marchant
• Relationship of close contact settings with transmission and infection during the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.2 epidemic in Shanghai (22 December, 2023)

  Wenlong Zhu, Shiying Yuan, Shenghua Mao, Jian Chen, Yaxu Zheng, Xianjin Jiang, Xiao Yu, Chenyan Jiang, Qiwen Fang, Weibing Wang, Zheng'an Yuan, Ye Yao
• The impact of decentralisation on health systems: a systematic review of reviews (21 December, 2023)

  Sujata Sapkota, Amshu Dhakal, Simon Rushton, Edwin van Teijlingen, Sujan B Marahatta, Julie Balen, Andrew CK Lee
• The health inequity and socioeconomic inequality faced by adolescent girls and women on the move living with or at high risk of HIV infection, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria (21 December, 2023)

  Erik Lamontagne, Hasiya Yunusa Nyako, Amaka Enemo, Aaron Sunday, Amira Muhammad, Rilwan Mohammed Abdullah, Henry Okiwu, Veronica Undelikwo, Pamela Ogbozor, Oluwaranmilowo Amusan, Oluwatoyin Alaba, Gabriel Undelikwo, Koubagnine Takpa, Greg Ashefor, Matthew Kavanagh, Morẹ́nikẹ́ Oluwátóyìn Foláyan
• Safety and efficacy of primaquine in patients with Plasmodium vivax malaria from South Asia: a systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis

  (20 December, 2023)

  Reena Verma, Robert J Commons, Apoorv Gupta, Manju Rahi, Nitika, Praveen K Bharti, Kamala Thriemer, Megha Rajasekhar, Sauman Singh-Phulgenda, Bipin Adhikari, Mohammad Shafiul Alam, Prakash Ghimire, Wasif A Khan, Rishikesh Kumar, Toby Leslie, Benedikt Ley, Alejandro Llanos-Cuentas, Sasithon Pukrittayakamee, Komal Raj Rijal, Mark Rowland, Kavitha Saravu, Julie A Simpson, Philippe J Guerin, Ric N Price, Amit Sharma
• China’s hidden role in malaria control and elimination in Africa (18 December, 2023)

  Julius Nyerere Odhiambo, Carrie Dolan, Ammar A Malik, Aaron Tavel
• Authorship inequalities in global health research: the IeDEA Southern Africa collaboration (16 December, 2023)

  Veronika W Skrivankova, Stefanie Hossmann, Morna Cornell, Marie Ballif, Carole Dupont, Jacqueline Huwa, Konstantinos Seintaridis, Thokozani Kalua, Gilles Wandeler, Reshma Kassanjee, Andreas D Haas, Karl-Gunter Technau, Lukas Fenner, Nicola Low, Mary-Ann Davies, Matthias Egger
• Trend, regional variation and socioeconomic inequality in cardiovascular disease among the elderly population in China: evidence from a nationwide longitudinal study during 2011–2018 (15 December, 2023)

  Qiong Wu, Yang Zhao, Lihua Liu, Yuehui Liu, Jianchao Liu
• Social determinants of health among people working on informal gold mines in French Guiana: a multicentre cross-sectional survey (16 December, 2023)

  Maylis Douine, Yann Lambert, Lorraine Plessis, Irène Jimeno, Muriel Galindo, Teddy Bardon, François-Michel Le Tourneau, Perrine Molinié, Alexandre Vié, Antoine Adenis, Mathieu Nacher, Amanda Figueira da Silva, Stephen Vreden, Martha Cécilia Suarez-Mutis, Alice Sanna
• Associations of diabetes, hypertension and obesity with COVID-19 mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis (14 December, 2023)

  Chaoyang Li, Nazrul Islam, Juan Pablo Gutierrez, Samuel Eloy Gutiérrez-Barreto, Andrés Castañeda Prado, Ronald L Moolenaar, Ben Lacey, Patricia Richter
• Improved vaccine coverage for First Nations children receiving first dose on-reserve: a retrospective cohort study in western Canada (12 December, 2023)

  Shannon E MacDonald, Bonny Graham, Keith D King, Li Huang, Lawrence W. Svenson, Gregg Nelson
• Ethical and cultural implications for conducting verbal autopsies in South and Southeast Asia: a qualitative study (11 December, 2023)

  Nan Shwe Nwe Htun, Carlo Perrone, Aung Pyae Phyo, Aninda Sen, Koukeo Phommasone, Moul Vanna, Nipaphan Kanthawang, Jarntrah Sappayabanphot, Widi Yotyingaphiram, Jindaporn Wirachonphaophong, Nawrin Kabir, Sam Ol, Xaipasong Xaiyaphet, Ailatda Soulivong, Khambang Seevanhthong, Rupam Tripura, Rusheng Chew, Napat Khirikoekkong, Shaun K Morris, Anne Osterrieder, Phaik Yeong Cheah, Prabhat Jha, Yoel Lubell, Thomas J Peto
• Multimorbidity in African ancestry populations: a scoping review (7 December, 2023)

  Michelle Kamp, Okechinyere Achilonu, Isaac Kisiangani, Daniel Maina Nderitu, Phelelani Thokozani Mpangase, Girmaw Abebe Tadesse, Kayode Adetunji, Samuel Iddi, Skyler Speakman, Scott Hazelhurst, Gershim Asiki, Michèle Ramsay
• Implementation of the Article 13 WHO FCTC measures and changes in cigarette smoking among youth in 42 countries (7 December, 2023)

  Tuija Ylitörmänen, Yelena N Tarasenko, Otto Ruokolainen, Heikki Hiilamo, Puska Pekka, Hanna Ollila
• Influences of community engagement and health system strengthening for cholera control in cholera reporting countries (6 December, 2023)

  Stephanie Ayres Baličević, Kelly Osezele Elimian, Carina King, Karin Diaconu, Oluwatosin Wuraola Akande, Vivianne Ihekweazu, Hanna Trolle, Giulia Gaudenzi, Birger Forsberg, Tobias Alfven
• ‘COVID-19 is just another way to die…’: a qualitative longitudinal study of frontline COVID-19 response governance across Syria

  (6 December, 2023)

  Yazan Douedari, Mervat Alhaffar, Ahmad Khanshor, Omar Alrashid Alhiraki, Manar Marzouk, Natasha Howard
• COVID-19 vaccination implementation in 52 African countries: trajectory and implications for future pandemic preparedness (6 December, 2023)

  Oghenebrume Wariri, Muhammed Olanrewaju Afolabi, Christinah Mukandavire, Yauba Saidu, Obe Destiny Balogun, Sidy Ndiaye, Emmanuel A Okpo, Terna Nomhwange, Olalekan A Uthman, Beate Kampmann
• A review and analysis of accountability in global health funding, research collaborations and training: towards conceptual clarity and better practice (6 December, 2023)

  Harvy Joy Liwanag, Oria James, Annika Frahsa
• Challenging the utility of 24-hour recall of exclusive breast feeding in Japan (7 December, 2023)

  Keiko Nanishi, Joseph Green, Akira Shibanuma, Hiroko Hongo, Sumiyo Okawa, Takahiro Tabuchi
• Conditions for health system resilience in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Mauritania (2 December, 2023)

  Kirsten Accoe, Bart Criel, Mohamed Ali Ag Ahmed, Veronica Trasancos Buitrago, Bruno Marchal
• Racial inequalities in mental healthcare use and mortality: a cross-sectional analysis of 1.2 million low-income individuals in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2010–2016 (2 December, 2023)

  Sophia Medeiros, Rony Coelho, Christopher Millett, Valeria Saraceni, Claudia Medina Coeli, Anete Trajman, Davide Rasella, Betina Durovni, Thomas Hone