The Lancet Global Health: December 2024, Volume 12, Issue 12

All registered pharmacy- and healthcare professionals in Namibia.

The December 2024 issue of The Lancet Global Health include the following 29 articles:
(with a curated selection of 14 articles* available for download)

• Metrics for the people and by the people
• Reducing antibiotic use with diarrhoeal vaccines
• Documenting the burden of dementia in Africa: new approaches and key lessons
• Quantifying the wellbeing of women: what metrics matter?
• Improving tuberculosis diagnosis in adults with HIV through Urine-Xpert Ultra
• Strengthening health-care systems to reduce child mortality
• Ferric carboxymaltose: a potential game changer
• The role and recognition of community health workers in research–a global survey
• C-reactive protein testing in primary care for acute respiratory infections: a cost-effective strategy to mitigate antimicrobial resistance across different income settings
• Access to antibiotics for pneumonia and sepsis in LMICs
• How should mpox vaccines be used in DRC and its neighbouring countries?
• Do breastfeeding mothers in DR Congo have access to the mpox vaccine?
• Breastfeeding mothers in DR Congo should have access to the mpox vaccine
• HIFA response to the Lancet Global Health Editorial
• Family caregivers: an essential link in achieving health information equity
• Modelling vaccination approaches for mpox containment and mitigation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo *
• Global radiotherapy demands and corresponding radiotherapy-professional workforce requirements in 2022 and predicted to 2050: a population-based study *
• The impact of vaccines for diarrhoea on antibiotic use among children in five low-resource settings: a comparative simulation study *
• Lassa fever outbreaks, mathematical models, and disease parameters: a systematic review and meta-analysis *
• The epidemiological benefit of pyrethroid–pyrrole insecticide treated nets against malaria: an individual-based malaria transmission dynamics modelling study *
• National and subnational burden of mental disorders in Iran (1990–2019): findings of the Global Burden of Disease 2019 study *
• The association of HIV status with triple-negative breast cancer in patients with breast cancer in South Africa: a cross-sectional analysis of case-only data from a prospective cohort study *
• Estimating dementia prevalence using remote diagnoses and algorithmic modelling: a population-based study of a rural region in South Africa *
• Understanding progress and challenges in women's health and wellbeing in exemplar countries: a time-series study identifying positive outliers *
• Urine-Xpert Ultra for the diagnosis of tuberculosis in people living with HIV: a prospective, multicentre, diagnostic accuracy study *
• Effect of a participatory whole-systems approach on mortality in children younger than 5 years in Jigawa state, Nigeria (INSPIRING trial): a community-based, parallel-arm, pragmatic, cluster randomised controlled trial and concurrent mixed-methods process evaluation *
• Postpartum maternal and infant haematological effects of second-trimester ferric carboxymaltose versus standard-of-care oral iron in Malawi: longitudinal follow-up of a randomised controlled trial *
• Cost-effectiveness of a short-course antibiotic treatment strategy for the treatment of ventilator-associated pneumonia: an economic analysis of the REGARD-VAP trial *
• Cost-effectiveness of viral load testing for transitioning antiretroviral therapy-experienced children to dolutegravir in South Africa: a modelling analysis *

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:

• The impact of vaccines for diarrhoea on antibiotic use among children in five low-resource settings: a comparative simulation study
• Lassa fever outbreaks, mathematical models, and disease parameters: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Accrediting Body: Health Professions Council of Namibia

Council Number: ORG01419

Number of CPD points awarded to journal: 2 Clinical Points