The Lancet Global Health: November 2024, Volume 12, Issue 11

All registered pharmacy- and healthcare professionals in Namibia.

The November 2024 issue of The Lancet Global Health include the following 25 articles:
(with a curated selection of 10 articles* available for download)

• Fixing the system to end violence against women
• Maternal near misses: need for solid metrics and estimates
• Maternal intimate partner violence and child health outcomes
• Accelerating the evidence for built environment health interventions
• Strengthening surgical systems in LMICs: data-driven approaches
• Intensify praziquantel administration to reverse vaccine hyporesponsiveness in LMICs?
• Safeguarding the SDG promise to end hunger and leave no one behind: the plight of children in the Gaza Strip
• Faith as a complex system: engaging with the faith sector for strengthened health emergency preparedness and response
• The role of humanitarian actors in global governance for AMR
• The 77th World Health Assembly resolution calling for newborn screening, diagnosis, and management of birth defects: moving towards action in low-income and middle-income countries
• Impact of the 100 days mission for vaccines on COVID-19: a mathematical modelling study *
• The lifetime risk of maternal near miss morbidity in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America: a cross-country systematic analysis *
• Intimate partner violence and childhood health outcomes in 37 sub-Saharan African countries: an analysis of demographic health survey data from 2011 to 2022 *
• Assessing the built environment through photographs and its association with obesity in 21 countries: the PURE Study *
• Mechanisms and causes of death after abdominal surgery in low-income and middle-income countries: a secondary analysis of the FALCON trial *
• Microbiology testing capacity and antimicrobial drug resistance in surgical-site infections: a post-hoc, prospective, secondary analysis of the FALCON randomised trial in seven low-income and middle-income countries *
• The effect of intensive praziquantel administration on vaccine-specific responses among schoolchildren in Ugandan schistosomiasis-endemic islands (POPVAC A): an open-label, randomised controlled trial *
• The effect of intermittent preventive treatment for malaria with dihydroartemisinin–piperaquine on vaccine-specific responses among schoolchildren in rural Uganda (POPVAC B): a double-blind, randomised controlled trial *
• The effect of BCG revaccination on the response to unrelated vaccines in urban Ugandan adolescents (POPVAC C): an open-label, randomised controlled trial *
• Schistosome and malaria exposure and urban–rural differences in vaccine responses in Uganda: a causal mediation analysis using data from three linked randomised controlled trials *
• Food insecurity, dietary inadequacy, and malnutrition in the Gaza Strip: a cross-sectional nutritional assessment of refugee children entering the first grade of UNRWA schools and their households before the conflict of 2023–24 *
• Safety of hepatitis E vaccine in pregnancy: an emulated target trial following a mass reactive vaccination campaign in Bentiu internally displaced persons camp, South Sudan *
• A loop-mediated isothermal amplification test for yaws: a multi-country diagnostic accuracy evaluation *
• Rapid surveys on violence against women in crisis contexts: decision-making guidance based on the UN Women Rapid Gender Assessment surveys on violence against women during COVID-19
• Machines matter too: including biomedical engineering partnerships in global health initiatives

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:

• Intimate partner violence and childhood health outcomes in 37 sub-Saharan African countries: an analysis of demographic health survey data from 2011 to 2022
• Microbiology testing capacity and antimicrobial drug resistance in surgical-site infections: a post-hoc, prospective, secondary analysis of the FALCON randomised trial in seven low-income and middle-income countries

Accrediting Body: Health Professions Council of Namibia

Council Number: ORG01419

Number of CPD points awarded to journal: 2 Clinical Points