The number of people dying with preventable, serious health-related suffering is rapidly increasing, and international calls for the expansion of palliative care services have been made, such as the ...

Current media attention has mainly focused on the horrendous consequences of Israel’s onslaught on the people of the Gaza Strip, its rates of death, serious injury, on people’s struggle for physical ...

Summary box Child malnutrition is a major global public health problem which risks significant worsening with COVID-19. Current terminology is complex and limits effective communications and programme ...

Background Authorship and author order have been used as one measure to characterise equity in research partnerships. First and last (senior) authorships often denote scientific merit as well as ...

Introduction In 2016, the World Health Organization (WHO) released comprehensive recommendations on antenatal care (ANC) for a positive pregnancy experience. The new model for delivering ANC is a goal ...

Introduction Fighting erupted on 15 April 2023 in Sudan between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. By September 2023, more than 420 000 people had fled to Chad. To assess the impact ...

By setting ambitious targets, the global health community has played a pivotal role in motivating the world to achieve remarkable improvements in health. Over 21 million additional lives were ...