Introduction The WHO has proposed a structured framework to assess palliative care development through 14 actionable indicators across 6 dimensions. While prior applications have been limited to ...

The core functions of primary care are first contact access, comprehensiveness, continuity, coordination and ...

Introduction Intimate partner violence (IPV) affects an estimated 27% of women globally, with consequences spanning mental, ...

The Unified Health System (Sistema Único de Saúde, SUS) is a cornerstone of Brazil’s public health, offering universal care ...

Introduction Acute rheumatic fever (ARF) is an immune response triggered by group A Streptococcus (GAS) infections, ...

Background Globally, adolescent mothers and their children have poorer health outcomes. However, little is known regarding ...

With global malaria cases on the rise, the WHO has placed increased emphasis on National Malaria Programmes to tailor ...

Strategies for mitigating emerging artemisinin-based antimalarial drug resistance in Rwanda: a promising approach for managing therapies in malaria-endemic countries (2 October, 2025) ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has catalysed profound structural changes in the health systems of many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), including North Korea (NK). Our analysis of Rodong Sinmun, the ...

In 2023, WHO released a guideline on prevention and management of wasting and nutritional oedema (acute malnutrition) in infants and children under 5 years as part of the Global Action Plan on Child ...

The 2023 WHO guideline on wasting and nutritional oedema includes four new recommendations, three updated recommendations and three new good practice statements for the management of severe wasting ...

The 2023 WHO guideline on wasting and nutritional oedema provides the first systematically developed evidence-informed set of recommendations and good practice statements for children 6–59 months of ...