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Gender and the Future of Global Health June 25, 2013– August 24, 2018 Contents The following blog posts were originally published on The Lancet Global Health Blog, which closed on December 31, 2018. 2018 42 Pandemic response: fear is inevitable, panic is optional C Simms 1 Ensuring quality care in Pakistan M H Zaman 44 Management of tuberculosis in pregnancy: 100 years later and we are still getting it wrong 3 Beginning the process: shaping global health in a multipolar world B-T Nyang’wa for the next 25 years R Seifman 46 Bridging the gap between global policy and local practice of respectful maternity care 5 After Argentina, other Latin American and Caribbean countries I de Vries and J Browne should not be afraid to debate abortion legalisation M Elder 48 Highlights from the second MSF Paediatric Days, Dakar, December 2017 7 Fixed-dose combination therapy for cardiovascular disease: S Nejat, with L Hiffler, D M Garcia, and A Kadir what can we learn from HIV? H Bygrave 51 Public-private partnership integrated health-care delivery: experience and lessons from Nepal 9 Ensuring prioritisation of gender and sexual minority health as R Schwarz and P Nepal part of our demands for UHC and LGBT+ rights A Raj and D Smith 55 Process matters when it comes to implementing the SDGs M Najafizada 11 Neglected tropical diseases and disability—what is the link? H Kuper 57 Global surgery and anaesthesia—expanding human capability S Juran 13 Biocitizenship and forced removals C Simms 59 Recommitting to children in the 2018 global AIDS agenda C Lyons 15 The new look of MDR and XDR-TB treatment: the times they are 61 Embracing global standards for community health care on Nepal’s a-changing H Huerga, U Khan, and K J Seung path towards universal health coverage A Thapa, P Chaudhary, and R Schwarz 17 India’s Pfizer litigation: balancing patentability and access to 63 Lessons from interactions between public health and the food and medicines? S Rajam and M Poddar drinks industry M Mwatsama and E Di Ruggiero 19 Mind the gap—closing the gaps in malaria research and 65 Visualizing an alternative biomedical R&D system development C Hogg J Reeder and J Whiting 67 The challenges faced by scientific journals in developing countries 20 Russia’s poor health does not need medicine, it needs evidence S R Mishra and D Neupane D Sarkisyan 22 Demanding a roadmap for non-communicable disease action: 2017 beyond “best buys” S G Ruchman, P Groden, D Newman, and N Sikka 69 Risks and opportunities as funding for polio disappears with the 24 1968: a revolutionary year, also for reproduction disease Nordic Ministers for Development L Kerr and L Stennett 26 Minamata Convention in Mozambique: are we searching under 71 Facing NTDs requires both WASH and health perspectives the wrong lamp post? L Qu F Brugger 73 The precarity of being indigenous: the case of Canada 28 To vaccinate more girls, involve the teachers C Simms B Atuhaire 75 Time to consider police brutality as a global health problem? 30 Urgent need for South Asian collaboration against A Milner and G Russo undifferentiated febrile illness 77 Women Leaders in Global Health: perspectives from emerging A Karkey leaders 32 Remote international medical teaching in North Korea T Jayaraman T Kim, T Kim, and J Zuckerman 79 A model for integrated action: IAEA, UNICEF and WHO collaborate 34 Diagnosis and treatment aren’t always enough: malaria must die to tackle the double burden of malnutrition É Gemme C Loechl 36 Men’s health: the case for global action 81 Innovative point-of-care diagnostic testing solutions emerge as a P Baker response to AMR 38 “Know your epidemic”: driving down HIV in London and beyond L Qu K Gedela 84 The one-way mirror of global health training 40 The need for a geopolitical shift in global health S Mehanni R Seifman and O Pannenborg 86 ‘Super Special Moms’: Grassroots, social media support group aids the response to congenital Zika syndrome K Lovero and C A Cardoso June 25, 2013– August 24, 2018 Contents (continued) 88 Cervical cancer deaths: a blind spot in global women’s health 135 Why efficiency savings shouldn’t be a last resort: lessons from C Fotheringham Uganda 90 What evidence is up against T Ngwaru J Bunting 137 Oxygen access in developing countries: a public health challenge 92 Melioidosis in south Asia: underground, underdiagnosed, and B Olayo dangerous 139 The Global Fund: where next? B Basnyat R Seifman 94 Can blockchain disrupt health education, licensing, and 141 In Yemen and other conflict zones, hospitals remain a target credentialling? C Monaghan A Peters 143 The epidemic of motorcycle road traffic injuries in the northeast of 97 Rehabilitation: a growing necessity in sub-Saharan Africa Brazil W Rule G Andreuccetti 99 Gender data: moving beyond sex-disaggregated analyses 145 Resisting resistance: how the G20 can foster political will to tackle A Raj antimicrobial resistance and turn the tide on tuberculosis 101 Surveillance for chronic kidney disease in agricultural communities M Imison and L Stennett in central America 147 2 years on: when democracy and tectonics collide P Ordunez and W Hoy D Maru and S R Mishra 103 Getting serious about financing the end of epidemics 149 Explaining Trumpcare: the appalling appeal C Collins C Simms 105 Critical reflections on meaningful youth contributions to global 151 Zika virus and the need for pharmaceutical preparedness health A Karan and T Pogge S W Sum Li 153 Safe global surgery needs effective non-technical skills 108 Evaluation in innovation—death threats and the importance of S Yi and Y Lin independence 155 To survive, health care needs small data to become adaptive R Marr D Maru and S Upreti 110 WHO has added snakebite to the NTD list: these things need to 157 Patient-centred R&D: where is the culture of inquiry and happen next innovation in LMICs? B Waldmann K R Pandey 112 Argentina must follow Germany’s lead on health at G20 159 World Malaria Day 2017—striving for malaria elimination is M Elder admirable but mind the (patient) gaps! 114 Do cash transfers help older people to access health services? B Rao F Galvani 161 The top five investments we should be making to tackle NTDs 116 Taking health in all policies seriously: health impact assessments, R Anderson and A Bettis WHO leadership, and international law 163 Refugee and migrant populations and the International Health E Friedman and G L Burci Regulations 118 Microbes as munitions: the neglected public health consequences R Seifman of war 165 Innovations in closing the global treatment gap for depression D Flecknoe C Lund 120 To the newly elected local leadership of Nepal: Invest in the 167 Students unite for open innovation and global access to expansion of emergency obstetric services, even where most tuberculosis drug sutezolid women deliver at home C Stone and M Basey S Maru 169 Accelerating progress to meet the goal of immunisation for all 122 Cyber threat, protection and resilience in humanitarian relief and K Mathieson response 171 Making the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations E Perakslis (CEPI) more effective 124 The World Bank in Kagame’s Rwanda R Seifman C Simms 173 Setting the stage for improving childhood cancer outcomes: 126 Most access-to-medicine initiatives are poorly evaluated; the Sickkids-Caribbean Initiative here’s one effort to change that S Gupta and T Gibson D J Olson 175 Gender and the future of global health 128 Deteriorating mental health in a Greek refugee camp A Liu and K Thompson L MacFarlane 177 Is a global shift developing to reduce penalties for violence against 130 What lies ahead: the role of entrepreneurship in India’s rising women? public health sector J Wagman, J Silverman, and A Raj C Maru 179 Dr Mustapha Kaloko’s Opening Statement at the International 133 Safer prescriptions for the elderly: challenges and solutions from Conference on Global Surgery 2017 India M Kaloko and K H Yangni-Angate N Kshirsagar June 25, 2013– August 24, 2018 Contents (continued) 181 Rebuilding health post-conflict: how and where should we start? 223 Women’s bodily integrity: linking criminalisation of abortion and S Saleh and M Menassa criminalisation of HIV 183 Cancer organisations must step up on tobacco tax to make S Fried progress on cancer prevention 225 Water, sanitation, and hygiene must be the first lines of defence S Cowal and O Santamaria de Fernández against antimicrobial resistance 185 Global surgery in Latin America Y Velleman N Alonso and V Moutinho 227 How we can hold leaders accountable for the health of women, 186 Global health and Mr Trump’s “new world order” children, and adolescents everywhere C Simms C Barroso 188 Expanding access to medicines and technologies by expanding the 229 Fiscal space analysis for health: friend or foe? dialogue A Gheorghe D C Kaslow and C Friderichs 231 We won’t achieve sustainable development goals for NCDs or 190 Treating undernutrition in Borno State, Nigeria: adapting strategy other targets without tobacco taxes in emergencies J L Castro K Hanson 234 Young midwife leaders speak: a declaration of commitment and global call for action 2016 Young Midwifery Leaders 236 Health and climate: the road of opportunity 192 The digital health revolution: what does it mean for emerging N Watts and H Montgomery markets? M Mrazek and X Mou 238 The Global Fund replenishment 2016: a chance to tip the balance S O’Mallie 194 Doctors worldwide speak up for healthier energy choices V Gordeljevic 240 Rethinking undergraduate global health education: the Bellagio Global Health Education Initiative 196 Tackling neglected tropical diseases through human
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